Command-Line FreeBSD Configuration: sysrc

The traditional BSD standard of “edit /etc/rc.conf” isn’t sustainable across large numbers of machines. If you must change dozens of servers you want a reliable way to alter the system without either manually editing every configuration file or some sed/awk hackery. (Running a sed/awk script to edit rc.conf on every server I own makes me nervous. I don’t do nervous these days.) FreeBSD 9.2 and later includes sysrc, a program to consistently and safely alter /etc/rc.conf and friends from the c...