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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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To: micahjon@ywave.com (Micah)
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Cc: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: hosts.allow ?
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> 
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >> At Sun, 19 Mar 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed:
> >>
> >>> One doesn't start anything from the rc.conf file - at least properly.
> >>> Those things get started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
> >>>
> >>> What goes in /etc/rc.conf are environmental variable settings that
> >>> those rc.d scripts look at to determine what to do.
> >>>
> >> I was under the impression that when one 'restarts' that the
> >> service will "re-read" /etc/rc.conf
> > 
> > I am not sure just at what point the rc.conf is read or re-read.
> > Try putting something in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xxxx.sh script to 
> > check for a specific environmental variable that you make up and put 
> > in /etc/rc.conf and then running the xxxx.sh script manually to see
> > what it knows about - even just put a printenv in the script.
> > 
> > ////jerry
> 
>  From the source it's clear that rc.conf is read when the individual rc 
> script executes a load_rc_config $name (or equivalent).

Sounds likely.   I didn't actually check where it reads it.  

////jerry

> 
> HTH,
> Micah
>