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Date:      6 Jan 2024 23:10:31 -0500
From:      "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        "Juan Manuel Palacios" <jmpalacios@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Moving /etc/rc.conf.local to /usr/local/etc/rc.conf
Message-ID:  <73678f67-e49f-365a-da09-5575619d736b@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <158D9F44-5633-4B4E-A781-834574F42F67@gmail.com>
References:  <20240106214844.5B9DA7FE2A02@ary.qy> <158D9F44-5633-4B4E-A781-834574F42F67@gmail.com>

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> Thank you for pointing out that entry in the rc.conf(5) man page! I guess I either didn’t pay too much attention to it at first, and/or I was thrown off either by the meaning of “(dir)” in that paragraph, which I can only assume maps to /usr/local/etc (but I still haven’t tested to confirm that), or by the fact that you can only use “(name)” configuration files inside rc.conf.d within “(dir)”, rather than just a plain rc.conf file within “(dir)”.
>
> So, if I’m I’m understanding correctly, that’d mean that I can have configuration files (*NOT* script files, which would go inside “(dir)”/rc.d) such as:
>
> /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/apache24
> /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d/php-fpm

Sure.

> but not a single one named:
>
> /usr/local/etc/rc.conf

Um, if you'd read to the end of that paragraph, you'd have found 
rc_conf_files which lists individual files to include.

These are just files of shell commands that are included by the startup 
scripts.  Take a look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf (described in the third 
paragraph of that same man page) and see what it does.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly



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