On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:

> lemme try this again.  since its first revision, the sshd script (for
> example) has contained a line that said
>
> 	command="/..."
>
> for some value of "...".  then, in june of last year, support for
> rc.conf.d was added to rc.subr so that individual rc.d scripts could
> have individual files in rc.conf.d as an alternative to settings in
> rc.conf.  it can also be used to set, eg, the value of the command
> variable, so that you can run an *alternate* version of something...
> perhaps something you installed yourself or got from pkgsrc.

OK. I see how that would work. It looks more like an undocumented hack,
though, than something we can rely on.

> in the face of this, i can't see how allowing *further* settings in
> rc.conf is necessary.  at least involving the command.

I would like to have the same functionality in "rc.conf" that's
available in "rc.conf.d", and I believe it should be documented in
"rc.subr" in the same place all the other ${name}_foo options are
documented.

Frederick