Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:30:35 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Bawden <Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> To: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: messing with /etc/rc.conf Message-ID: <14Jan1999.161508.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <19990114170530.A16311@scientia.demon.co.uk> (message from Ben Smithurst on Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:05:30 %2B0000) References: <8Jan1999.042549.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990108192746.B63511@scientia.demon.co.uk> <9Jan1999.220116.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990110041754.A94335@scientia.demon.co.uk> <14Jan1999.003932.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990114170530.A16311@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:05:30 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> ... 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): ... 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). Bleaugh! You're absolutely right, that does do the trick... There's a comment before configRC_conf() that says it is "pretty gross and needs re-writing", and I could easily imagine that a careful re-write would no longer have this property, so, in the interests of robustness, I think I'll stick to the solution I've already adopted, which is to put the real definition of that variable into my rc.conf.local. Anyway, thanks for your help. I think it would be safe to say that we've both found this experience educational. - Alan P.S. I just submitted a suggestion for a better comment for the front of rc.conf, so that in the future, people editing that file will know the rules for game they are playing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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