NAME
rc.conf —
system startup configuration
file
DESCRIPTION
The
rc.conf file specifies which services are enabled during
system startup by the startup scripts invoked by
/etc/rc
(see
rc(8)), and the shutdown
scripts invoked by
/etc/rc.shutdown. The
rc.conf file is a shell script that is sourced by
rc(8), meaning that
rc.conf must contain valid shell commands.
Listed below are the standard
rc.conf variables that may be
set, the values to which each may be set, a brief description of what each
variable does, and a reference to relevant manual pages. Third party packages
may test for additional variables.
By default,
rc.conf reads
/etc/defaults/rc.conf (if it is readable) to obtain default
values for various variables, and the end-user may override these by appending
appropriate entries to the end of
rc.conf.
rc.d(8) scripts that use
load_rc_config from
rc.subr(8) also support
sourcing an optional end-user provided per-script override file
/etc/rc.conf.d/service, (where
service is the contents of the
name
variable in the
rc.d(8) script).
This may contain variable overrides, including allowing the end-user to
override various
run_rc_command
rc.d(8) control variables, and
thus changing the operation of the script without requiring editing of the
script.
Variable naming
conventions and data types
Most variables are one of two types: enabling variables or flags variables.
Enabling variables, such as
inetd, are generally named after
the program or the system they enable, and have boolean values (specified
using ‘
YES’,
‘
TRUE’, ‘
ON’ or
‘
1’ for true, and
‘
NO’, ‘
FALSE’,
‘
OFF’ or ‘
0’ for
false, with the values being case insensitive). Flags variables, such as
inetd_flags have the same name with "_flags"
appended, and determine what arguments are passed to the program if it is
enabled.
If a variable that
rc(8) expects to be
set is not set, or the value is not one of the allowed values, a warning will
be printed.
Overall control
-
-
- do_rcshutdown
- Boolean value. If false,
shutdown(8) will not run
/etc/rc.shutdown.
-
-
- rcshutdown_rcorder_flags
- A string. Extra arguments to the
rcorder(8) run by
/etc/rc.shutdown.
-
-
- rcshutdown_timeout
- A number. If non-blank, use this as the number of seconds
to run a watchdog timer for which will terminate
/etc/rc.shutdown if the timer expires before the
shutdown script completes.
-
-
- rc_configured
- Boolean value. If false then the system will drop into
single-user mode during boot.
-
-
- rc_fast_and_loose
- If set to a non-empty string, each script in
/etc/rc.d will be executed in the current shell rather
than a sub shell. This may be faster on slow machines that have an
expensive fork(2) operation.
- Note:
- Use this at your own risk! A rogue command or script
may inadvertently prevent boot to multiuser.
-
-
- rc_rcorder_flags
- A string. Extra arguments to the
rcorder(8) run by
/etc/rc.
-
-
- rc_directories
- A string. Space separated list of directories searched for
rc scripts. The default is /etc/rc.d. All directories in
rc_directories
must be located in the root file
system, otherwise they will be silently skipped.
-
-
- rc_silent
- Boolean value. If true then the usual output is suppressed,
and rc(8) invokes the command
specified in the rc_silent_cmd variable once for
each line of suppressed output. The default value of
rc_silent is set from the
AB_SILENT
flag in the kernel's
boothowto variable (see
boot(8),
reboot(2)).
-
-
- rc_silent_cmd
- A command to be executed once per line of suppressed
output, when rc_silent is true. The default value of
rc_silent_cmd is “twiddle”, which will
display a spinning symbol instead of each line of output. Another useful
value is “:”, which will display nothing at all.
Basic network configuration
-
-
- defaultroute
- A string. Default IPv4 network route. If empty or not set,
then the contents of /etc/mygate (if it exists) are
used.
-
-
- defaultroute6
- A string. Default IPv6 network route. If empty or not set,
then the contents of /etc/mygate6 (if it exists) are
used.
-
-
- domainname
- A string. NIS (YP) domain of host. If empty or not set,
then the contents of /etc/defaultdomain (if it exists)
are used.
-
-
- force_down_interfaces
- A space separated list of interface names. These interfaces
will be configured down when going from multiuser to single-user mode or
on system shutdown.
-
-
- dns_domain
- A string. Sets domain in
/etc/resolv.conf.
-
-
- dns_search
- A string. Sets search in
/etc/resolv.conf.
-
-
- dns_nameservers
- A string of space seperated domain name servers. Sets
nameserver for each value in /etc/resolv.conf.
-
-
- dns_sortlist
- A string. Sets sortlist in
/etc/resolv.conf.
-
-
- dns_options
- A string. Sets options in
/etc/resolv.conf.
-
-
- dns_metric
- An unsigned integer. Sets the priority of the above DNS to
other sources, lowest wins. Defaults to 0.
This is important for some stateful interfaces, for example PPP over ISDN
connections that cost money by connection time or PPPoE interfaces which
have no direct means of noticing “disconnect” events.
All active pppoe(4) and
ippp(4) interfaces will be
automatically added to this list.
-
-
- hostname
- A string. Name of host. If empty or not set, then the
contents of /etc/myname (if it exists) are used.
Boottime
file-system and swap configuration
-
-
- critical_filesystems_local
- A string. File systems mounted very early in the system
boot before networking services are available. Usually
/var is part of this, because it is needed by services
such as dhcpcd(8) which may
be required to get the network operational. The default is
“OPTIONAL:/var”, where the “OPTIONAL:” prefix
means that it's not an error if the file system is not present in
fstab(5).
-
-
- critical_filesystems_remote
- A string. File systems such as /usr that
may require network services to be available to mount, that must be
available early in the system boot for general services to use. The
default is “OPTIONAL:/usr”, where the “OPTIONAL:”
prefix means that it is not an error if the file system is not present in
fstab(5).
-
-
- fsck_flags
- A string. A file system is checked with
fsck(8) during boot before
mounting it. This option may be used to override the default command-line
options passed to the fsck(8)
program.
When set to -y,
fsck(8) assumes yes as the
answer to all operator questions during file system checks. This might be
important with hosts where the administrator does not have access to the
console and an unsuccessful shutdown must not make the host unbootable
even if the file system checks would fail in preen mode.
-
-
- no_swap
- Boolean value. Should be true if you have deliberately
configured your system with no swap. If false and no swap devices are
configured, the system will warn you.
-
-
- resize_root
- Boolean value. Set to true to have the system resize the
root file system to fill its partition. Will only attempt to resize the
root file system if it is of type ffs and does not have logging enabled.
Defaults to false.
-
-
- swapoff
- Boolean value. Remove block-type swap devices at shutdown
time. Useful if swapping onto RAIDframe devices.
Block device subsystems
-
-
- ccd
- Boolean value. Configures concatenated disk devices
according to
ccd.conf(5).
-
-
- cgd
- Boolean value. Configures cryptographic disk devices.
Requires /etc/cgd/cgd.conf. See
cgdconfig(8) for
additional details.
-
-
- lvm
- Boolean value. Configures the logical volume manager. See
lvm(8) for additional
details.
-
-
- raidframe
- Boolean value. Configures
raid(4), RAIDframe disk
devices. See raidctl(8) for
additional details.
-
-
- accounting
- Boolean value. Enables process accounting with
accton(8). Requires
/var/account/acct to exist.
-
-
- clear_tmp
- Boolean value. Clear /tmp after
reboot.
-
-
- dmesg
- Boolean value. Create /var/run/dmesg.boot
from the output of dmesg(8).
Passes dmesg_flags.
-
-
- envsys
- Boolean value. Sets preferences for the environmental
systems framework,
envsys(4). Requires
/etc/envsys.conf, which is described in
envsys.conf(5).
-
-
- gpio
- Boolean value. Configure
gpio(4) devices. See
gpio.conf(5).
-
-
- ldconfig
- Boolean value. Configures
a.out(5) runtime link editor
directory cache.
-
-
- mixerctl
- Boolean value. Read
mixerctl.conf(5) for
how to set mixer values. List in mixerctl_mixers the
devices whose settings are to be saved at shutdown and restored at
start-up.
-
-
- newsyslog
- Boolean value. Run newsyslog to trim log
files before syslogd starts. Intended for laptop users. Passes
newsyslog_flags.
-
-
- per_user_tmp
- Boolean value. Enables a per-user /tmp
directory. per_user_tmp_dir can be used to override the
default location of the “real” temporary directories,
“/private/tmp”. See
security(7) for additional
details.
-
-
- quota
- Boolean value. Checks and enables quotas by running
quotacheck(8) and
quotaon(8).
-
-
- random_seed
- Boolean value. During boot-up, runs the
rndctl(8) utility with the
-L flag to seed the random number subsystem from an
entropy file. During shutdown, runs the
rndctl(8) utility with the
-S flag to save some random information to the entropy
file. The entropy file name is specified by the
random_file variable, and defaults to
/var/db/entropy-file. The entropy file must be on a
local file system that is writable early during boot-up (just after the
file systems specified in critical_filesystems_local
have been mounted), and correspondingly late during shutdown.
-
-
- rndctl
- Boolean value. Runs the
rndctl(8) utility one or
more times according to the specification in
rndctl_flags.
If rndctl_flags does not contain a semicolon
(‘
;
’) then it is expected to contain
zero or more flags, followed by one or more device or type names. The
rndctl(8) command will be
executed once for each device or type name. If the specified flags do not
include any of -c, -C,
-e, or -E, then the flags
-c and -e are added, to specify that
entropy from the relevant device or type should be both collected and
estimated. If the specified flags do not include either of
-d or -t, then the flag
-d is added, to specify that the non-flag arguments are
device names, not type names.
rndctl_flags may contain multiple semicolon-separated
segments, in which each segment contains flags and device or type names as
described above. This allows different flags to be associated with
different device or type names. For example, given
rndctl_flags="wd0 wd1; -t tty; -c -t
net"
, the following commands will be executed:
rndctl -c -e -d wd0
; rndctl -c -e
-d wd1
; rndctl -c -e -t tty
;
rndctl -c -t net
.
-
-
- rtclocaltime
- Boolean value. Sets the real time clock to local time by
adjusting the sysctl(7)
value of kern.rtc_offset. The offset from UTC is
calculated automatically according to the time zone information in the
file /etc/localtime.
-
-
- savecore
- Boolean value. Runs the
savecore(8) utility.
Passes savecore_flags. The directory where crash dumps
are stored is specified by savecore_dir. The default
setting is “/var/crash”.
-
-
- sysdb
- Boolean value. Builds various system databases, including
/var/run/dev.cdb, /etc/spwd.db,
/var/db/netgroup.db,
/var/db/services.cdb, and entries for
utmp(5).
-
-
- tpctl
- Boolean value. Run
tpctl(8) to calibrate touch
panel device. Passes tpctl_flags.
-
-
- update_motd
- Boolean value. Updates the NetBSD
version string in the /etc/motd file to reflect the
version of the running kernel. See
motd(5).
-
-
- update_motd_release
- Boolean value. If enabled in addition to
update_motd, updates a second
NetBSD version string in the
/etc/motd file to reflect the version, architecture, and
Build ID of the installed userland. An optional prefix can be provided for
this version string in motd_release_tag.
-
-
- virecover
- Boolean value. Send notification mail to users if any
recoverable files exist in /var/tmp/vi.recover. Read
virecover(8) for more
information.
-
-
- wdogctl
- Boolean value. Configures watchdog timers. Passes
wdogctl_flags. Refer to
wdogctl(8) for information
on how to configure a timer.
System security settings
-
-
- securelevel
- A number. The system securelevel is set to the specified
value early in the boot process, before any external logins, or other
programs that run users job, are started. If set to nothing, the default
action is taken, as described in
init(8) and
secmodel_securelevel(9),
which contains definitive information about the system securelevel. Note
that setting securelevel to 0 in
rc.conf will actually result in the system booting with
securelevel set to 1, as
init(8) will raise the level
when rc(8) completes.
-
-
- permit_nonalpha
- Boolean value. Allow passwords to include non-alpha
characters, usually to allow NIS/YP netgroups.
-
-
- veriexec
- Boolean value. Load Veriexec fingerprints during startup.
Read veriexecctl(8) for
more information.
-
-
- veriexec_strict
- A number. Controls the strict level of Veriexec. Level 0 is
learning mode, used when building the signatures file. It will only output
messages but will not enforce anything. Level 1 will only prevent access
to files with a fingerprint mismatch. Level 2 will also deny writing to
and removing of monitored files, as well as enforce access type (as
specified in the signatures file). Level 3 will take a step further and
prevent access to files that are not monitored.
-
-
- veriexec_verbose
- A number. Controls the verbosity of Veriexec. Recommended
operation is at level 0, verbose output (mostly used when building the
signatures file) is at level 1. Level 2 is for debugging only and should
not be used.
-
-
- veriexec_flags
- A string. Flags to pass to the
veriexecctl command.
-
-
- smtoff
- Boolean value. Disables SMT (Simultaneous
Multi-Threading).
Networking startup
-
-
- altqd
- Boolean value. ALTQ configuration/monitoring daemon. Passes
altqd_flags.
-
-
- auto_ifconfig
- Boolean value. Sets the net_interfaces
variable (see below) to the output of
ifconfig(8) with the
“
-l
” flag and suppresses warnings
about interfaces in this list that do not have an ifconfig file or
variable.
-
-
- dhclient
- Boolean value. Set true to configure some or all network
interfaces using the ISC DHCP client. If you set
dhclient true, then /var must be in
critical_filesystems_local, or /var
must be on the root file system, or you must modify the
dhclient_flags variable to direct the DHCP client to
store the leases file in some other directory on the root file system. You
must not provide ifconfig information or ifaliases information for any
interface that is to be configured using the DHCP client. Interface
aliases can be set up in the DHCP client configuration file if needed -
see dhclient.conf(5)
for details.
Passes dhclient_flags to the DHCP client. See
dhclient(8) for complete
documentation. If you wish to configure all broadcast network interfaces
using the DHCP client, you can leave this blank. To configure only
specific interfaces, name the interfaces to be configured on the command
line.
If you must run the DHCP client before mounting critical file systems, then
you should specify an alternate location for the DHCP client's lease file
in the dhclient_flags variable - for example, "-lf
/tmp/dhclient.leases".
-
-
- dhcpcd
- Boolean value. Set true to configure some or all network
interfaces using dhcpcd. If you set dhcpcd true, then
/var must be in
critical_filesystems_local, or /var
must be on the root file system. If you need to restrict dhcpcd to one or
a number of interfaces, or need a separate configuration per interface,
then this should be done in the configuration file - see
dhcpcd.conf(5) for
details. dhcpcd presently ignores the wpa_supplicant
variable in rc.conf and will start wpa_supplicant if a suitable
wpa_supplicant.conf is found unless otherwise instructed in
dhcpcd.conf(5).
-
-
- dhcpcd_flags
- Passes dhcpcd_flags to dhcpcd. See
dhcpcd(8) for complete
documentation.
-
-
- flushroutes
- Boolean value. Flushes the route table on networking
startup. Useful when coming up to multiuser mode after going down to
single-user mode.
-
-
- ftp_proxy
- Boolean value. Runs
ftp-proxy(8), the proxy
daemon for the Internet File Transfer Protocol.
-
-
- hostapd
- Boolean value. Runs
hostapd(8), the
authenticator for IEEE 802.11 networks.
-
-
- ifaliases_*
- A string. List of ‘address
netmask’ pairs to configure additional network addresses for the
given configured interface “*” (e.g.
ifaliases_le0). If netmask is
“-”, then use the default netmask for the interface.
ifaliases_* covers limited cases only and is considered
unrecommended. We recommend using ifconfig_nnX variables
or /etc/ifconfig.xxN files with multiple lines
instead.
-
-
- ifwatchd
- Boolean value. Monitor dynamic interfaces and perform
actions upon address changes. Passes
ifwatchd_flags.
-
-
- ip6addrctl
- Boolean value. Fine grain control of address and routing
priorities.
-
-
- ip6addrctl_policy
- A string. Can be:
auto
- automatically determine from system settings; will read
priorities from /etc/ip6addrctl.conf or if that file
does not exist it will default to IPv6 first, then IPv4.
ipv4_prefer
- try IPv4 before IPv6.
ipv6_prefer
- try IPv6 before IPv4.
-
-
- ip6addrctl_verbose
- Boolean value. If set, print the resulting prefixes and
priorities map.
-
-
- ip6mode
- A string. An IPv6 node can be a router (nodes that forward
packet for others) or a host (nodes that do not forward). A host can be
autoconfigured based on the information advertised by adjacent IPv6
routers. By setting ip6mode to
“
router
”,
“host
”, or
“autohost
”, you can configure your
node as a router, a non-autoconfigured host, or an autoconfigured host.
Invalid values will be ignored, and the node will be configured as a
non-autoconfigured host. You may want to check rtsol and
rtsold as well, if you set the variable to
“autohost
”.
-
-
- ip6uniquelocal
- Boolean value. If ip6mode is equal to
“
router
”, and
ip6uniquelocal is false, a reject route will be
installed on boot to avoid misconfiguration relating to unique-local
addresses. If ip6uniquelocal is true, the reject route
won't be installed.
-
-
- ipfilter
- Boolean value. Runs
ipf(8) to load in packet filter
specifications from /etc/ipf.conf at network boot time,
before any interfaces are configured. Passes
ipfilter_flags. See
ipf.conf(5).
-
-
- ipfs
- Boolean value. Runs
ipfs(8) to save and restore
information for ipnat and ipfilter state tables. The information is stored
in /var/db/ipf/ipstate.ipf and
/var/db/ipf/ipnat.ipf. Passes
ipfs_flags.
-
-
- ipmon
- Boolean value. Runs
ipmon(8) to read
ipf(8) packet log information
and log it to a file or the system log. Passes
ipmon_flags.
-
-
- ipmon_flags
- A string. Specifies arguments to supply to
ipmon(8). Defaults to
“
-ns
”. A typical example would be
“-nD /var/log/ipflog” to
have ipmon(8) log directly to
a file bypassing
syslogd(8). If the
“-D” argument is used, remember to modify
/etc/newsyslog.conf accordingly; for example:
/var/log/ipflog 640 10 100 * Z /var/run/ipmon.pid
-
-
- ipnat
- Boolean value. Runs
ipnat(8) to load in the IP
network address translation (NAT) rules from
/etc/ipnat.conf at network boot time, before any
interfaces are configured. See
ipnat.conf(5).
-
-
- ipsec
- Boolean value. Runs
setkey(8) to load in IPsec
manual keys and policies from /etc/ipsec.conf at network
boot time, before any interfaces are configured.
-
-
- net_interfaces
- A string. The list of network interfaces to be configured
at boot time. For each interface "xxN", the system first looks
for ifconfig parameters in the variable ifconfig_xxN,
and then in the file /etc/ifconfig.xxN. If
auto_ifconfig is false, and neither the variable nor the
file is found, a warning is printed. Information in either the variable or
the file is parsed identically, except that, if an
ifconfig_xxN variable contains a single line with
embedded semicolons, then the value is split into multiple lines prior to
further parsing, treating the semicolon as a line separator.
One common case it to set the ifconfig_xxN variable to a
set of arguments to be passed to an
ifconfig(8) command after
the interface name. Refer to
ifconfig.if(5) for more
details on /etc/ifconfig.xxN files, and note that the
information there also applies to ifconfig_xxN variables
(after the variables are split into lines).
-
-
- ntpdate
- Boolean value. Runs
ntpdate(8) to set the
system time from one of the hosts in ntpdate_hosts. If
ntpdate_hosts is empty, it will attempt to find a list
of hosts in /etc/ntp.conf. Passes
ntpdate_flags.
-
-
- pf
- Boolean value. Enable
pf(4) at network boot time: Load
the initial configuration
pf.boot.conf(5) before
the network is up. After the network has been configured, then load the
final rule set
pf.conf(5).
-
-
- pf_rules
- A string. The path of the
pf.conf(5) rule set that
will be used when loading the final rule set.
-
-
- pflogd
- Boolean value. Run
pflogd(8) for dumping packet
filter logging information to a file.
-
-
- ppp
- A boolean. Toggles starting
pppd(8) on startup. See
ppp_peers below.
-
-
- ppp_peers
- A string. If ppp is true and
ppp_peers is not empty, then
/etc/rc.d/ppp will check each word in
ppp_peers for a corresponding ppp configuration file in
/etc/ppp/peers and will call
pppd(8) with the “call
peer” option.
-
-
- racoon
- Boolean value. Runs
racoon(8), the IKE
(ISAKMP/Oakley) key management daemon.
-
-
- rtsol
- Boolean value. Run
rtsol(8), router solicitation
command for IPv6 hosts. On nomadic hosts like notebook computers, you may
want to enable rtsold as well. Passes
rtsol_flags. This is only for autoconfigured IPv6 hosts,
so set ip6mode to
“
autohost
” if you use it.
-
-
- wpa_supplicant
- Boolean value. Run
wpa_supplicant(8),
WPA/802.11i Supplicant for wireless network devices. If you set
wpa_supplicant true, then /usr must be
in critical_filesystems_local, or /usr
must be on the root file system. dhcpcd ignores this variable, see the
dhcpcd variable for details.
Daemons required by other
daemons
-
-
- inetd
- Boolean value. Runs the
inetd(8) daemon to start
network server processes (as listed in /etc/inetd.conf)
as necessary. Passes inetd_flags. The
“
-l
” flag turns on libwrap connection
logging.
-
-
- rpcbind
- Boolean value. The
rpcbind(8) daemon is
required for any rpc(3)
services. These include NFS, NIS,
rpc.bootparamd(8),
rpc.rstatd(8),
rpc.rusersd(8), and
rpc.rwalld(8). Passes
rpcbind_flags.
Commonly used daemons
-
-
- cron
- Boolean value. Run
cron(8).
-
-
- ftpd
- Boolean value. Runs the
ftpd(8) daemon and passes
ftpd_flags.
-
-
- httpd
- Boolean value. Runs the
httpd(8) daemon and passes
httpd_flags.
-
-
- httpd_wwwdir
- A string. The
httpd(8) WWW root directory.
Used only if httpd is true. The default setting is
“/var/www”.
-
-
- httpd_wwwuser
- A string. If non-blank and httpd is true,
run httpd(8) and cause it to
switch to the specified user after initialization. It is preferred to
httpd_user because
httpd(8) is requiring extra
privileges to start listening on default port 80. The default setting is
“
_httpd
”.
-
-
- lpd
- Boolean value. Runs
lpd(8) and passes
lpd_flags. The “
-l
”
flag will turn on extra logging.
-
-
- mdnsd
- Boolean value. Runs
mdnsd(8).
-
-
- named
- Boolean value. Runs
named(8) and passes
named_flags.
-
-
- named_chrootdir
- A string. If non-blank and named is true,
run named(8) as the
unprivileged user and group ‘named’,
chroot(2)ed to
named_chrootdir.
named_chrootdir/var/run/log will be
added to the list of log sockets that
syslogd(8) listens to.
-
-
- ntpd
- Boolean value. Runs
ntpd(8) and passes
ntpd_flags.
-
-
- ntpd_chrootdir
- A string. If non-blank and ntpd is true,
run ntpd(8) as the
unprivileged user and group ‘ntpd’,
chroot(2)ed to
ntpd_chrootdir.
ntpd_chrootdir/var/run/log will be
added to the list of log sockets that
syslogd(8) listens to. This
option requires that the kernel has
pseudo-device clockctl
compiled in, and that /dev/clockctl is present.
-
-
- postfix
- Boolean value. Starts
postfix(1) mail
system.
-
-
- sshd
- Boolean value. Runs
sshd(8) and passes
sshd_flags.
-
-
- syslogd
- Boolean value. Runs
syslogd(8) and passes
syslogd_flags.
-
-
- timed
- Boolean value. Runs
timed(8) and passes
timed_flags. The
“
-M
” option allows
timed(8) to be a master time
source as well as a slave. If you are also running
ntpd(8), only one machine
running both should have the “-M
” flag
given to timed(8).
Routing daemons
-
-
- mrouted
- Boolean value. Runs
mrouted(8), the DVMRP
multicast routing protocol daemon. Passes
mrouted_flags.
-
-
- route6d
- Boolean value. Runs
route6d(8), the RIPng
routing protocol daemon for IPv6. Passes
route6d_flags.
-
-
- routed
- Boolean value. Runs
routed(8), the RIP routing
protocol daemon. Passes routed_flags.
-
-
- rtsold
- Boolean value. Runs
rtsold(8), the IPv6 router
solicitation daemon.
rtsold(8) periodically
transmits router solicitation packets to find IPv6 routers on the network.
This configuration is mainly for nomadic hosts like notebook computers.
Stationary hosts should work fine with just rtsol.
Passes rtsold_flags. This is only for autoconfigured
IPv6 hosts, so set ip6mode to
“
autohost
” if you use it.
Daemons used
to boot other hosts over a network
-
-
- bootparamd
- Boolean value. Runs
bootparamd(8), the boot
parameter server, with bootparamd_flags as options. Used
to boot NetBSD and SunOS 4.x systems.
-
-
- dhcpd
- Boolean value. Runs
dhcpd(8), the Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) daemon, for assigning IP addresses to hosts
and passing boot information. Passes dhcpd_flags.
-
-
- dhcrelay
- Boolean value. Runs
dhcrelay(8). Passes
dhcrelay_flags.
-
-
- mopd
- Boolean value. Runs
mopd(8), the DEC MOP protocol
daemon; used for booting VAX and other DEC machines. Passes
mopd_flags.
-
-
- ndbootd
- Boolean value. Runs
ndbootd(8), the Sun Network
Disk (ND) Protocol server. Passes ndbootd_flags.
-
-
- rarpd
- Boolean value. Runs
rarpd(8), the reverse ARP
daemon, often used to boot NetBSD and Sun
workstations. Passes rarpd_flags.
-
-
- rbootd
- Boolean value. Runs
rbootd(8), the HP boot
protocol daemon; used for booting HP workstations. Passes
rbootd_flags.
-
-
- rtadvd
- Boolean value. Runs
rtadvd(8), the IPv6 router
advertisement daemon, which is used to advertise information about the
subnet to IPv6 end hosts. Passes rtadvd_flags. This is
only for IPv6 routers, so set ip6mode to
“
router
” if you use it.
X Window System daemons
-
-
- xdm
- Boolean value. Runs the
xdm(1) X display manager. These
X daemons are available only with the optional X distribution of
NetBSD.
-
-
- xfs
- Boolean value. Runs the
xfs(1) X11 font server, which
supplies local X font files to X terminals.
NIS (YP) daemons
-
-
- ypbind
- Boolean value. Runs
ypbind(8), which lets NIS
(YP) clients use information from a NIS server. Passes
ypbind_flags.
-
-
- yppasswdd
- Boolean value. Runs
yppasswdd(8), which
allows remote NIS users to update password on master server. Passes
yppasswdd_flags.
-
-
- ypserv
- Boolean value. Runs
ypserv(8), the NIS (YP)
server for distributing information from certain files in
/etc. Passes ypserv_flags. The
“
-d
” flag causes it to use DNS for
lookups in /etc/hosts that fail.
NFS daemons and parameters
-
-
- amd
- Boolean value. Runs
amd(8), the automounter daemon,
which automatically mounts NFS file systems whenever a file or directory
within that file system is accessed. Passes
amd_flags.
-
-
- amd_dir
- A string. The
amd(8) mount directory. Used
only if amd is true.
-
-
- lockd
- Boolean value. Runs
rpc.lockd(8) if
nfs_server and/or nfs_client are true.
Passes lockd_flags.
-
-
- mountd
- Boolean value. Runs
mountd(8) and passes
mountd_flags.
-
-
- nfs_client
- Boolean value. The number of local NFS asynchronous I/O
server is now controlled via
sysctl(8).
-
-
- nfs_server
- Boolean value. Sets up a host to be a NFS server by running
nfsd(8) and passing
nfsd_flags.
-
-
- statd
- Boolean value. Runs
rpc.statd(8), a status
monitoring daemon used when
rpc.lockd(8) is running,
if nfs_server and/or nfs_client are
true. Passes statd_flags.
Bluetooth support
-
-
- bluetooth
- Boolean value. Configure Bluetooth support, comprising the
following tasks:
- attach serial Bluetooth
controllers as listed in the
/etc/bluetooth/btattach.conf configuration
file.
- enable Bluetooth
controllers with useful defaults, plus additional options as detailed
below.
- optionally, start
bthcid(8), the Bluetooth
Link Key/PIN Code manager, passing
bthcid_flags.
- configure local Bluetooth
drivers as listed in the
/etc/bluetooth/btdevctl.conf configuration
file.
- optionally, start
sdpd(8), the Service
Discovery server, passing sdpd_flags.
-
-
- btconfig_devices
- A string. An optional list of Bluetooth controllers to
configure.
-
-
- btconfig_{dev}
- A string. Additional configuration options for specific
Bluetooth controllers.
-
-
- btconfig_args
- A string. Additional configuration options for Bluetooth
controllers without specific options as above.
-
-
- bthcid
- Boolean value. If set to false, disable starting the
Bluetooth Link Key/PIN Code manager.
-
-
- sdpd
- Boolean value. If set to false, disable starting the
Bluetooth Service Discovery server.
Other daemons
-
-
- identd
- Boolean value. Runs
identd(8), the daemon for
the user identification protocol. Passes
identd_flags.
-
-
- iscsi_target
- Boolean value. Runs the server for iSCSI requests,
iscsi-target(8).
Passes iscsi_target_flags.
-
-
- isdnd
- Boolean value. Runs
isdnd(8), the isdn4bsd ISDN
connection management daemon. Passes isdnd_flags.
-
-
- isdn_autoupdown
- Boolean value. Set all configured ISDN interfaces to
“up”. If isdn_interfaces is not blank, only
the listed interfaces will be modified. Used only if
isdnd is true.
-
-
- kdc
- Boolean value. Runs the
kdc(8) Kerberos v4 and v5
server. This should be run on Kerberos master and slave servers.
-
-
- rwhod
- Boolean value. Runs
rwhod(8) to support the
rwho(1) and
ruptime(1) commands.
Hardware daemons
-
-
- apmd
- Boolean value. Runs
apmd(8) and passes
apmd_flags.
-
-
- irdaattach
- Boolean value. Runs
irdaattach(8) and passes
irdaattach_flags.
-
-
- moused
- Boolean value. Runs
moused(8), to pass serial
mouse data to the wscons mouse mux. Passes
moused_flags.
-
-
- screenblank
- Boolean value. Runs
screenblank(1) and
passes screenblank_flags.
-
-
- wscons
- Boolean value. Configures the
wscons(4) console driver,
from the configuration file /etc/wscons.conf.
-
-
- wsmoused
- Boolean value. Runs
wsmoused(8), to provide
copy and paste text support in wscons displays. Passes
wsmoused_flags.
FILES
- /etc/rc.conf
- The file rc.conf resides in
/etc.
- /etc/defaults/rc.conf
- Default settings for rc.conf, sourced by
rc.conf before the end-user configuration section.
- /etc/rc.conf.d/foo
- foo-specific
rc.conf overrides.
SEE ALSO
boot(8),
rc(8),
rc.d(8),
rc.subr(8),
rcorder(8)
HISTORY
The
rc.conf file appeared in
NetBSD
1.3.