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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:05:30 +0000
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Alan Bawden <Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: messing with /etc/rc.conf
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Alan Bawden wrote:

> 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)"

I note you found sysinstall was truncating this, and there seems to be
a fairly simple solution after a quick look at the source. Just stick a
"#" right at the end of the line (there must be a space before it, of
course):

ntpdate_flags="-bs $(/usr/bin/awk '$1 == "server" || $1 == "peer" {print $2}' /etc/ntp.conf)" #

This is because sysinstall tries to keep comments, so it will copy the
whole line, rather than stopping after the first matching quote. Look at
/usr/src/release/sysinstall/config.c, the configRC_conf function around
line 360. This works on my system anyway (3.0-current).

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Ben Smithurst
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