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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:44:14 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        vogelke+unix@pobox.com
Cc:        Gary Gatten <ggatten@waddell.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sorta newb help compiling samba
Message-ID:  <20090410214414.acc2dc6d.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090410190237.27848BE71@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil>
References:  <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793E92E@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <20090410190237.27848BE71@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil>

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Just a small sidenote according to your shell script:

You're defining

	# echo without newline
	necho () {
		echo "$*" | tr -d '\012'
	}

Why don't you use echo -n which suppresses the newline instead
of involving another program to do something that echo can do
on its own? This is how FreeBSD does it in its system scripts.

	echo -n "Starting service... "
	start_service
	echo "done."

And according to 

	test -d /usr/bin || exit 0	# /usr not mounted

Woudln't it be more compliant to exit 1 to signal an error
due to /usr not being mounted? Exit code 0 is usually used
to signal that no error has happened (successful program
run), which isn't the case when the script is not (completely)
run.



-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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