What is with the /etc/env.d files?

cayenne · l33t Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 945 Location: New Orleans

Hello all,

I've recently dug up a machine I'd not messed with in awhile. I did update to many things...KDE included.

I found that the XSESSION setting is no longer in /etc/rc.conf...but in a file in /etc/env.d/90xsession.

Why was this moved. Also, just looking around, looks like many different things moved here...and all the files seem to start with a number.

Is there any significance to the numbers starting the names?

Just hoping to learn a little about the move, and what to look for in this directory when configuring other things...what all uses this new directory?

Thanks in advance,

cayenne

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lxg · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:27 pm Post subject:

It's a bunch of environment variables, grouped by applications/topics.

/etc/rc.conf is the global configuration file for OpenRC, which is responsible for runlevel management. Variables concerning GUI applications don't really belong there, think of servers for example. Hence /etc/env.d/90xsession.
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cayenne · l33t Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 945 Location: New Orleans

s_bernstein · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:36 pm Post subject:

The files in /etc/env.d are processed in alphabetical order, so using numbers lets you easily controll the order of execution.