docs/87698: No manual entry for rc.conf.local

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:30 am, Marian Cerny wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/87698; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Marian Cerny <jojo at matfyz.cz>
> To: Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: docs/87698: No manual entry for rc.conf.local
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:23:16 +0200
>
>  Sorry, I probably don't understand links to manual pages. It's just
>  strange to me, that there is no manual page for rc.conf.local, although
>  rc(8) is describing it -- it is in the SYNOPSIS of rc(8) manual page.
>  But if it is ok, this bug can be closed.
>
>  I don't think the description of rc.conf.local in rc.conf(5) is better
>  than in rc(8):
>
>       The file /etc/rc.conf.local is used to override settings in
> /etc/rc.conf for historical reasons.  See the rc_conf_files variable below.

It's a file that has the same format as /etc/rc.conf, so rc.conf(5) should 
handle both just fine.  As long as rc(8) mentions that rc.conf.local exists 
to override settings in rc.conf I think things are fine the way they are 
without the need for any additional links.

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