From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 11 20:03:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1840A106568A for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:03:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell.rawbw.com (shell.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD96D8FC1F for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (c-67-188-87-228.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.188.87.228]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell.rawbw.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n5BK3vpK063136; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A31632C.7060005@rawbw.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:03:56 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Flynn References: <4A315B15.5030000@rawbw.com> <200906111155.15644.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200906111155.15644.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:03:58 -0000 Mel Flynn wrote: > > So escape use and escape the quotes with a backslash. You may need more then > one backslash, depending on the level of evaluation in /etc/rc.subr and > /etc/rc.d/netif. > I believe documentation should describe this since this is a major element of setting wireless network up. If that's more than one backslash that's bad since it makes it cryptic. I will investigate and will file a PR with patch. Yuri