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wolvoleoyesterday at 11:54 PM1 replyview on HN

FreeBSD is kinda declarative. A lot of it is (or can be) configured in a text file called rc.conf

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rc.conf

It's not as completely declarative as Nix but it was never intended to be.


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vermadentoday at 12:55 AM

More like 3 files.

- /boot/loader.conf for kernel settings to be set only at boot

- /etc/sysctl.conf for kernel settings to be set anytime

- /etc/rc.conf for rest of configuration