Re: Confused about connection between an option in rc.conf and the associated action?

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Date: 03/13/05

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To: Ola Theander <ola.theander@otsystem.com>

    Ola Theander wrote:
    > Dear subscribers
    >
    > I'm slightly confused about enabling an option in rc.conf and the associated
    > action? E.g. say that I enable gateway_enable="YES" or maybe
    > dhcpd_enable="YES", how does FreeBSD associate this simple line to the
    > associated action? I've had a theory that adding e.g. test_enable="YES" to
    > rc.conf would trigger the execution of the file /etc/rc.d/test.sh at boot
    > time but it seems like this isn't how it's done.

    A lot of the time these are connected to scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
    for ports you've installed, a lot of the time they are just handled
    natively by the system's supplied rc scripts. For example you can see
    the gateway_enable variable used in /etc/rc.d/routing.

    Having said that, I can't see where sshd_enable is used anywhere on my
    system, although OpenSSH starts at boot...

    DS
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