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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:18:18 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r217788 - stable/7/share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <201101241518.p0OFIIJB096275@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Mon Jan 24 15:18:18 2011
New Revision: 217788
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/217788

Log:
  MFC 217148, 217786:
  Document rc.conf.d in rc.conf(5).
  
  PR:		140495
  Approved by:	keramida (mentor)

Modified:
  stable/7/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
Directory Properties:
  stable/7/share/man/man5/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/7/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	Mon Jan 24 15:17:10 2011	(r217787)
+++ stable/7/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	Mon Jan 24 15:18:18 2011	(r217788)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 13, 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 8
+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



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