rc.conf and new startup scripts

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Cezar Fistik wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I would like to get some info about changes to startup 
>scripts that are in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ directory. It 
>looks like they are completely different now... calls 
>to some "strange" functions etc. How do they relate to 
>rc.conf? I mean now I need to tell in rc.conf: DAEMON_enable="YES", 
>if I don't the script in rc.d is just ignored. I would appreciate 
>any info regarding these new changes.
>
>Thank you,
>Cezar
>  
>

The comments in /etc/defaults/rc.conf are a good
starting point, and quite educational IMHO.

Kevin Kinsey