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Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Sat Jan  8 13:28:43 2011
New Revision: 217148
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/217148

Log:
  Document rc.conf.d in rc.conf(5).
  
  PR:		140495
  Submitted by:	Tom Judge (tom of tomjudge com)
  Approved by:	keramida (mentor)
  MFC after:	2 weeks

Modified:
  head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5

Modified: head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	Sat Jan  8 12:43:05 2011	(r217147)
+++ head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	Sat Jan  8 13:28:43 2011	(r217148)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 24, 2010
+.Dd January 7, 2011
 .Dt RC.CONF 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -64,7 +64,19 @@ The file
 is used to override settings in
 .Pa /etc/rc.conf
 for historical reasons.
-See the
+In addition to
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
+you can also place smaller configuration files for each
+.Xr rc
+script in the
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf.d
+directory, which will be included by the
+.Va load_rc_config
+function.
+For jail configurations you could use the file
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf.d/jail
+to store jail specific configuration options.
+Also see the
 .Va rc_conf_files
 variable below.
 .Pp