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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 |