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2011-05-22better document what happens at system shutdown;Jason McIntyre
much discussion/help/ok ajacoutot schwarze
2011-04-29it seems in fifteen years, and eleven revisions of this page, we have neverJason McIntyre
actually had an update command; make one more, final, edit... ok krw ian deraadt
2011-04-27remove the blurb on siteXX.tgz and install.site: we can just drop thisJason McIntyre
text in without explaining what it is, and that is beyond the remit of this (or currently any) man page; the pertinent info has been moved to faq4 as discussed with schwarze and ajacoutot...
2011-04-27no need for rc(8) to do the job of rc.conf(8): remove the examples section;Jason McIntyre
ok ajacoutot schwarze
2011-04-25+MLINK=rc.8 rc.firsttime.8;Jason McIntyre
2011-04-25no need for a separate ENVIRONMENT section;Jason McIntyre
ok ajacoutot schwarze
2011-04-25various small improvements, with some help from ingo;Jason McIntyre
ok schwarze ajacoutot
2011-04-22Move things around after recent rc(8) changes.Antoine Jacoutot
ok robert@ jmc@
2011-04-20Fix spacing nit.Matthew Dempsky
ok jmc@
2011-04-19syncTodd T. Fries
2011-04-19zap trailing whitespace;Jason McIntyre
2011-04-18Adjust after removal of /etc/security to /usr/libexec.Ingo Schwarze
More HISTORY. Using feedback from jmc@. "I think that is correct. If it isn't, someone out there will eventually moan :)" deraadt@
2011-04-18Deprecate vnds in favour of svnds.Thordur I. Bjornsson
In effect, this removes the "old" vndX nodes, and renames the svndX nodes to vndX. Old svndX nodes will still continue to work though, for now. Cleanup accordingly. ok deraadt@, todd@ comments and ok on the man page bits from jmc@
2011-04-17the pstat(8) sample line will now contain a real device nameTheo de Raadt
2011-04-15Remove mention of "make depend" from here as well.Antoine Jacoutot
ok deraadt@ guenther@
2011-04-05Push COMPAT_FREEBSD in front of a whale. Buggy, out of date, noPhilip Guenthe
one has been weeding it, and it makes life harder. Toasts of Brennivin for its passing from many; diff ok henning@
2011-03-25Bump timeout to 30s.Antoine Jacoutot
ok robert@
2011-03-24Document daemon_flags=NO.Antoine Jacoutot
ok robert@
2011-03-23Cleanup .Va macros, triggered by a smaller diff from ajacoutot@.Ingo Schwarze
* Do not use .Va for mere emphasis, it's for variable names. * Use .Dl to display complete single command lines. * And .Bd -literal is nicer when they contain double quotes. ok ajacoutot@
2011-03-17add missing .El;Jason McIntyre
2011-03-17Document RC_DEBUG.Antoine Jacoutot
"I love having slaves" && ok robert@
2011-03-15Put daemon between double quotes to make it clear we are talking aboutAntoine Jacoutot
the daemon class, not the daemon script. ok schwarze@
2011-03-15Document daemon_class, with wording help from jmc@Antoine Jacoutot
2011-03-15Make it clear that rc_reload=NO is not about a daemon not supportingAntoine Jacoutot
SIGHUP but having no way to reload the configuration (other than restart).
2011-03-13Some cleanup of the discussion of rc.d variables:Ingo Schwarze
A bit more precision, insert the proper section header, and avoid remarks in parentheses. ok ajacoutot@
2011-03-10Changing daemon_flags on already running processes can make any kind ofAntoine Jacoutot
action fail, not just reload and stop. ok sthen@
2011-03-10tweak previous;Jason McIntyre
2011-03-10Extend the documentation of the actions argument and bring this up to dateAntoine Jacoutot
after the recent changes. ok sthen@ robert@
2011-03-08There is no such thing as rc_restart().Antoine Jacoutot
2011-03-06Add an "rc_bg" variable that is undefined by default and allows to startAntoine Jacoutot
a daemon in the background. man page tweaks from schwarze@ discussed with an ok schwarze@ robert@
2011-03-06Clarify.Antoine Jacoutot
ok schwarze@ jmc@
2011-03-05Minor polishing that was missed during the recent rc.subr(8) split:Ingo Schwarze
* Avoid markup of "daemon" when not explicitly referring to the variable. * Improve some wording, remove one typo and one useless .Pp. Reminded by jmc@, ok jmc@ ajacoutot@
2011-02-24Fix several documentation bugs (including a typo fix from schwarze@).Antoine Jacoutot
Missing documentation about the naming policy for rc scripts. Document rcexec. Remove daemon_shell, it's proved useless at best and can introduce issues we don't want to deal with. prodded by, discussed with and ok espie@ ok robert@ miod@
2011-02-17split along user/implementation lines.Marc Espie
After lots of back and forth with jmc@ and schwarze. okay miod@
2011-02-16Recommend checking DNS.Ingo Schwarze
Joint work of lum@, jmc@ and myself; committing on behalf of lum@ who is short on time. ok jmc@ lum@ miod@
2011-02-12Extend rc_scripts documentation.Antoine Jacoutot
prodded by espie@ ok jmc@ (with tweaks), ok miod@
2011-02-10fix manual page description; replace .Pa -> .Nm in synopsis.Igor Sobrado
ok schwarze@
2011-01-30As reminded by deraadt@, we don't usually use "you" in manuals, so useIngo Schwarze
a bit less of it here, even though this page is a bit special. Not a full sweep of the page, just cleaning up the paragraph we recently touched. ok jmc@ lum@
2011-01-29Amend "Login" section to reflect the fact that a user accountlum
can be created during installation. Suggestions from schwarze@ ok for first version miod@
2011-01-21Simplify reference to errata.htmllum
ok and help jmc@
2011-01-21Help description of PATH liability a bit.lum
ok jmc@
2011-01-16explain various points in more detail, and some in easier orIngo Schwarze
more standard ways; ok jmc@ ajacoutot@ robert@
2011-01-16tweak previous;Jason McIntyre
2011-01-16- remove double wordJasper Lievisse Adriaanse
2011-01-16hook rc.subr.8 to the build and create a link to rc.d.8 andRobert Nagy
document the missing pieces in rc(8) and rc.shutdown(8)
2011-01-16- new sentence, new lineJasper Lievisse Adriaanse
- remove double word - slight rewording tweaks
2011-01-16- missing .PaJasper Lievisse Adriaanse
2011-01-16Start documenting rc.subr(8).Robert Nagy
There is still space for fixes so we are not linking it to the build yet.
2011-01-04using nice is editorializing, it has no place hereTheo de Raadt
2010-11-19regenMiod Vallat