manpage from ian@darwinsys.com

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diff --git a/share/man/man8/Makefile b/share/man/man8/Makefile
index 4221fac3977..e9a079d2a22 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/Makefile
+++ b/share/man/man8/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-#	$OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.16 1998/01/12 06:01:38 mickey Exp $
+#	$OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.17 1998/01/20 21:18:49 deraadt Exp $
 #	$NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.13 1996/03/28 21:36:40 mark Exp $
 #	@(#)Makefile	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
 
 MAN=	afterboot.8 compat_bsdos.8 compat_freebsd.8 compat_linux.8 compat_sunos.8 \
-	compat_svr4.8 compat_ultrix.8 diskless.8 intro.8 rc.8 \
+	compat_svr4.8 compat_ultrix.8 diskless.8 intro.8 rc.8 rc.conf.8 \
 	sticky.8 update.8 yp.8 boot_config.8
 SUBDIR=	man8.amiga man8.arm32 man8.atari man8.hp300 man8.i386 man8.mac68k \
 	man8.sparc man8.sun3 man8.vax
diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.conf.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.conf.8
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..11f2d4ff3b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/share/man/man8/rc.conf.8
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+.\"	$NetBSD: yp.8,v 1.9 1995/08/11 01:16:52 thorpej Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Ian F. Darwin
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote
+.\"    products derived from this software without specific prior written
+.\"    permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS
+.\" OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+.\" DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd January 5, 1998
+.Os OpenBSD 2.2
+.Dt RC.CONF 8 SMM
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm rc.conf
+.Nd system daemon configuration database
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This file contains a series of Bourne-shell syntax assinments
+that are used to configure the system daemons.
+It is not read by the kernel, but is sourced by various other files
+in the
+.Pa /etc/rc.*
+series in order to set shell variables used therein
+to control the behaviour of the scripts.
+.Pp
+There are three sections to the file. The first is used to turn features
+on or off. For example, whether your system runs the 
+.Nm sendmail
+daemon is determined by the line in this section
+.Bd -literal -indent xxx
+sendmail_flags=NO
+.Ed
+.Pp
+If you edit this line to contain some valid sendmail daemon command-line
+flags, such as
+.Bd -literal -indent xxx
+sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m"
+.Ed
+.Pp
+then the sendmail daemon will be started with those options.
+.Pp
+The second section contains some other programs that can either be run or not,
+but that don't need options. They can be set to YES or NO. For example,
+the distributed system contains the line
+.Bd -literal -indent xxx
+nfs_server=NO
+.Ed
+.Pp
+which prevents the NFS server daemons from starting. If you wish to 
+run NFS, you need to change this line's value from NO to YES,
+.Sy plus
+you also need to make whatever changes are needed for the server
+to have something to do (like, set up the exports file).
+.Pp
+The third section contains values that parameterize servers started by
+one of the first two sections, and are ignored if the corresponding
+server is not running. For example, if you enabled 
+.Nm nfs_server ,
+you should also be aware of the value here
+.Bd -literal -indent xxx
+nfsd_flags="-tun 4"
+.Ed
+.Pp
+which starts four copies of the server; on a busy file server you'd
+probably change to 8 or more.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr init 8 ,
+.Xr rc 8 .
+.Pp
+and the detailed documentation given for each server that is
+configurable in this fashion.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The file 
+.Nm rc.conf
+first appeared in OpenBSD 2.2