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Old 5th November 2010
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
OpenBSD does not have an rc.d infrastructure. Only /etc/rc, /etc/rc.local, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/rc.conf.local. The conf files are only for variables used in /etc/rc -- they are not used in /etc/rc.local.
There will be a rc.d implementation in 4.9, this was done by Robert Nagy at the p2k10 ports hackathon I believe.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=128811627000775&w=2

We can only hope that this implementation will be better than the offerings of other systems, I know that rc.d scripts are unaesthetically pleasing on Linux.

Personally I believe that one should learn the base utilities over blindly executing some scripts in /etc/rc.d, other OpenBSD users may agree with me.
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