Michael W. Lucas has a short article up about sysrc, a FreeBSD tool for handling rc.conf across multiple machines. This could easily be a cross-BSD tool – hint, hint.
Update: as Sascha Wildner pointed out, rcrun covers that in DragonFly. Mostly I’d like to see the same interface, then, I guess?
In DragonFly, this functionality should be covered by rcrun(8), i.e. rcstart, rcstop, rcenable and friends.
Sascha
We should have a new RC system. Perhaps, port SMF from OpenIndiana?
How difficult could this be?