include format for /etc/rc.conf

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 09:40, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Are there any supported formats for INCLUDES in /etc/rc.conf such that I
> can drop default configs into /etc/rc.conf and then have files in a
> certain directory (ala includerc) override them?  Basically, I'd like to
> do mass-updates of several dozen machines' configs normally found in
> /etc/rc.conf, but then have per-machine configs (like hostnames)
> elsewhere.

Look at rc_conf_files (man rc.conf).

By default there are three ``levels'' of config:

/etc/defaults/rc.conf
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/rc.conf.local

each one overriding the previous one.

Jonathan