Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:28:22 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com> Cc: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed? Message-ID: <4C2C2776.7090908@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <511898.25578.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <511898.25578.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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Chris Stankevitz wrote: >> From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> >>> Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions >> executed to "enable" GNOME? >> >> This enables dbus, avahi, hal, and gdm (assuming that they >> are installed, of course). See the files for those things in >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d for the details of what is run. >> >> See: >> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome > > Rob, > > Thank you for your response. I also saw that comment in > the docs; however, I am actually not interested in knowing > what gnome_enable="YES" does. I should have been more clear. > > I would like to learn more about how rc operates. I want > to know where on the hard drive the instructions are > located that activate when I say gnome_enable="YES". > I naively thought I would find a file called "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome" > -- but I did not. Something more complicated is going > on. So my question is -- how is this working? > > Thank you, > Err, Magic? More seriously, `man rc` and several hours of cross-references (rc.subr., rc.conf., rc.local, etc. etc.) might be enlightening. HTH, Kevin Kinsey
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