Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:17:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backticks in rc.conf Message-ID: <87ocrb17e4.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20090721132104.0a3a7bda@gumby.homeunix.com> (RW's message of "Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:04 %2B0100") References: <d36406630907210146m4e84c7dbpd55776168a50090c@mail.gmail.com> <20090721112920.c174849b.freebsd@edvax.de> <87ljmi1dyq.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20090721132104.0a3a7bda@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:04 +0100, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: >On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:18:37 +0300 >Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> There's a catch here that may go unnoticed for a while... >> >> rc.conf may be sourced by /etc/rc *long* before filesystems are >> mounted. As a result grep or awk may be not be available and stop >> rc.conf from loading. > > rc.conf is sourced for each rcng script Yes, I should have avoided 'may' as it sounds hypothetical. Every rcng script sources rc.conf :)
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