From 8d2e10d0b9459cef019068eac3336d88cecf5efb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:20:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Reflect latest changes in rc.subr wrt prefix/etcdir variables
 being set automatically by load_rc_config.

With help from:	ru (mdoc-fu)
Reviewed by:	brueffer
Approved by:	cperciva
---
 share/man/man8/rc.subr.8 | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
index 7fbab14affc..e9a3d0823c1 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd April 4, 2006
+.Dd June 7, 2006
 .Dt RC.SUBR 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@
 .It
 .Ic info Ar message
 .It
-.Ic load_rc_config Ar command
+.Ic load_rc_config Ar name
 .It
-.Ic load_rc_config_var Ar command Ar var
+.Ic load_rc_config_var Ar name Ar var
 .It
 .Ic mount_critical_filesystems Ar type
 .It
@@ -312,28 +312,54 @@ turned on or off by the
 .Xr rc.conf 5
 variable
 .Va rc_info .
-.It Ic load_rc_config Ar command
+.It Ic load_rc_config Ar name
 Source in the configuration files for
-.Ar command .
+.Ar name .
 First,
+.Pa /etc/defaults/rc.conf
+and
 .Pa /etc/rc.conf
-is sourced if it has not yet been read in.
+are sourced if they have not yet been read in.
 Then,
-.Pa /etc/rc.conf.d/ Ns Ar command
-is sourced if it is an existing file.
-The latter may also contain other variable assignments to override
+.Va etcdir
+is set to
+.Pa /etc
+if
+.Va command Ap s
+prefix (or
+.Va ${name} Ns Va _program Ap s
+if it is defined) is
+.Pa /
+or
+.Pa /usr ,
+otherwise
+.Va etcdir
+is set to
+.Pa ${prefix} Ns Pa /etc .
+Once those variables are set accordingly,
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf.d/ Ns Va ${name}
+is sourced if the file exists (but it is deprecated if
+.Va etcdir
+is different than
+.Pa /etc )
+and then
+.Pa ${etcdir} Ns Pa /defaults/ Ns Va ${name}
+and
+.Va ${etcdir} Ns Pa /rc.conf.d/ Ns Va ${name}
+are sourced if these files exist.
+All these files may also contain other variable assignments to override
 .Ic run_rc_command
 arguments defined by the calling script, to provide an easy
 mechanism for an administrator to override the behaviour of a given
 .Xr rc.d 8
 script without requiring the editing of that script.
-.It Ic load_rc_config_var Ar command Ar var
+.It Ic load_rc_config_var Ar name Ar var
 Read the
 .Xr rc.conf 5
 variable
 .Ar var
 for
-.Ar command
+.Ar name
 and set in the current shell, using
 .Ic load_rc_config
 in a sub-shell to prevent unwanted side effects from other variable
-- 
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