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From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: LDAP integration
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Lamont Granquist wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> And if you're looking specifically at the /etc/rc.conf config file, what
>>> would be more useful would be an /etc/rc.conf.d/ directory.
>>
>> Good news for you, we already support that. :) I agree that it makes a
>> great tool for the "many systems" problem, and could reasonably be
>> used for part of the "dynamic laptop" problem too.
> 
> 7-current feature?  I'm not seeing it in rc.conf(5) on my RELENG_6-ish
> system...

It's not documented, but the code is there in /etc/rc.subr:

grep 'rc.conf\.d' /etc/rc.subr
        if [ -f /etc/rc.conf.d/"$_name" ]; then
                debug "Sourcing /etc/rc.conf.d/${_name}"
                . /etc/rc.conf.d/"$_name"
...

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