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From: Don Read <sysop@calcasieu.com>
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Subject: Re: messing with /etc/rc.conf
To: Alan@lcs.mit.edu (Alan Bawden)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 03:10:35 -0600 (CST)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <14Jan1999.003932.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> from "Alan Bawden" at Jan 14, 99 01:02:50 am
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> 
<snip> 
> OK, so I've now established that the first guy to try answering my question
> didn't actually know that something other than `sh' occasionally reads and
> re-writes the contents of /etc/rc.conf.  
>

'tude--;

<snip>
> 
> To review: I recently noticed that the line in my rc.conf file that used to
> read:
> 
>   ntpdate_flags="-bs $(/usr/bin/awk '$1 == "server" || $1 == "peer" {print $2}' /etc/ntp.conf)"
> 
> had been altered to read:
> 
>   ntpdate_flags="-bs $(/usr/bin/awk '$1 == "
> 

The problem is the use of mixed quote-ing [" '] attempting to run 
a process instead of the expected constant " ".

try instead:
ntpdate_flags=`echo \-bs;awk '/^server|^peer/{ print $2 }' /etc/ntp.conf`

(works from cmd line, YMMV).

> 
> Somebody?
>

who ? me ?

Regards,
-- 
 Don Read                                    sysop@calcasieu.com
 EDP Manager                                     dread@texas.net
 Calcasieu Lumber Co.                                  Austin TX
 -- Will sysadmin for food

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