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Cc: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>, Chris Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'
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On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote:
> Tom Worster wrote:
> > thanks, Mel, that's good to know.
> >
> > i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy
> > solution for me.
> 
> You could also just put:
> 
> sshd_flags="-o X11Forwarding=no"
> 
> into your /etc/rc.conf file.

What he wants is passing arguments without touching config files, which I find 
myself needing sometimes as well, on machines where static partitions are 
mounted read-only + kern.secure_level.
-- 
Mel