Date: 13 Mar 2005 00:34:01 -0500 From: james.cook@utoronto.ca To: "Ronny Hippler" <replies.20.r11roadster@spamgourmet.com> Cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Confused about connection between an option in rc.conf and the associated action? Message-ID: <20050313053401.GA2459@skywolf.cdf.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050313024714.0021F43D3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <4233A236.8080908@sancho2k.net> <20050313024714.0021F43D3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:46:39PM -0500, Ronny Hippler wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:15:18 -0700, Sancho2k.net Lists wrote:
>
> >Having said that, I can't see where sshd_enable is used anywhere on my
> >system, although OpenSSH starts at boot...
>
> after ploding through the files in etc I have come to the conclusion
> that init (which is run @ boot) starts many scripts in there named
> rc.????. ssh is started by rc.network if I am guessing correctly.
I think init just runs /etc/rc on bootup; I'm not sure, but that's certainly
one of the things it does.
In any case, /etc/rc then runs each of the scripts in /etc/rc.d:
files=`rcorder ${skip} /etc/rc.d/* 2>/dev/null`
for _rc_elem in ${files}; do
run_rc_script ${_rc_elem} ${_boot}
done
It seems that the scripts in /etc/rc.d then look at the various configuration
files.
For example, /etc/rc.d/sshd will only actually start sshd if the sshd_enable
option is set in /etc/rc.conf. rc.conf doesn't do anything itself; it merely
contains options that other scripts read.
- James Cook
james.cook@utoronto.ca
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