Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:42:04 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Use of /etc/rc.conf.d (Was: Re: LDAP integration) Message-ID: <45A684FC.4070609@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.60.0701101434110.5736@sploit.scriptkiddie.org> References: <20070107190616.73dee7b0@vixen42> <45A1DE76.7000201@FreeBSD.org> <20070108185247.2b6e1f69@vixen42> <45A407D1.9030101@FreeBSD.org> <20070109184346.135e0bf4@vixen42> <Pine.GSO.4.60.0701101316300.5305@sploit.scriptkiddie.org> <45A56107.5050205@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.GSO.4.60.0701101404260.5542@sploit.scriptkiddie.org> <45A566D7.4040907@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.GSO.4.60.0701101434110.5736@sploit.scriptkiddie.org>
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Lamont Granquist wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Doug Barton wrote:
>> 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"
>> ...
>
> If i understand that correctly its not *exactly* what i was looking for,
> but its better than a monolithic /etc/rc.conf
>
> It looks like you must put /etc/rc.d/inetd config into either
> /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.config.d/inetd.
Actually you can use both, but where variable names overlap whatever
is sourced last will "win."
> That means that if you've got two different orthogonal applications
> runing on the same server which both need to run something orthogonal
> out of inetd then they still wind up needing to do edits to the same
> config file to get inetd configured correctly.
Not exactly (and I think you're overusing the term orthogonal). :)
rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.d only store configuration for the rc.d
scripts themselves. The configuration of inetd is still stored in
/etc/inetd.conf.
$ grep inetd /etc/defaults/rc.conf
inetd_enable="NO" # Run the network daemon dispatcher (YES/NO).
inetd_program="/usr/sbin/inetd" # path to inetd, if you want a
different one.
inetd_flags="-wW -C 60" # Optional flags to inetd
vs. everything that is in /etc/inetd.conf.
> I'd rather see
> /etc/rc.config.d/app01 and /etc/rc.config.d/app02 both able to tweak
> inetd settings. Of course there is the possibility that app01 and app02
> could drop mutually conflicting inetd setttings, but you've got that
> problem anyway in the existing scheme...
I think this'd be great, I can't wait to see your patches. :)
Doug
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