Setting an environment var at boot

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On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:28:14 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:49:25 +0200, Nicolas Letellier
> <nicolas at nicoelro.net> wrote:
> > What file do you advice?
> 
> Unclean, but maybe "early" enough in the boot process: /etc/rc.local.
> This file won't be touched at port's or system's update.

I don't think that would work, since rc.local is sourced from a
subshell.


> Much more unclean, but certainly earlier: /etc/rc itself. Thile file
> is examined during system update.
> 
> 

I've not tried it myself, but I think you could probably just export the
variable in rc.conf (provided that the value isn't required in the rc.d
script itself, for initialization, before run_rc_command is executed). 

You can also put per script configuration in the file

   /etc/rc.conf.d/<name>

where <name> is whatever the rc.d script sets as "name".