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Date:      Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:12:47 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d ike named ppp-user sshd
Message-ID:  <20051028171246.GF89861@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <200510281045.57862.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200510231406.j9NE6r8L008373@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051027082115.GA749@garage.freebsd.pl> <20051027091920.GA11982@comp.chem.msu.su> <200510281045.57862.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:45:55AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 27 October 2005 05:19 am, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:21:16AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:14:56AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > > +> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > > +> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:06:53PM +0000, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > > +> > +> yar         2005-10-23 14:06:53 UTC
> > > +> > +>
> > > +> > +>   FreeBSD src repository
> > > +> > +>
> > > +> > +>   Modified files:
> > > +> > +>     etc/rc.d             ike named ppp-user sshd
> > > +> > +>   Log:
> > > +> > +>   Don't be lazy, set the "command" variable even if
> > > +> > +>   /etc/defaults/rc.conf will provide foo_program, too.
> > > +> > +>   By specifying "command" we explicitly say that we're
> > > +> > +>   going to rely on rc.subr(8) default methods, and
> > > +> > +>   rc.subr(8) will take advantage of this soon.
> > > +> > +>
> > > +> > +>   The majority of our rc.d scripts already set "command"
> > > +> > +>   if appropriate, so fix just the non-compliant handful.
> > > +> > [...]
> > > +> > +>  name="named"
> > > +> > +>  rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> > > +> > +> +command="/usr/sbin/${name}"
> > > +> > [...]
> > > +> > +>  name="ppp"
> > > +> > +>  rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> > > +> > +> +command="/usr/sbin/ppp"
> > > +> > [...]
> > > +> > +>  name="sshd"
> > > +> > +>  rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> > > +> > +> +command="/usr/sbin/${name}"
> > > +> >
> > > +> > Any reason you didn't used ${name} in ppp case?
> > > +>
> > > +> I was just blinded by my being solid sure that $name was "ppp-user".
> > > +> Nowever, now I'm in doubt whether $name should be "ppp".  The script
> > > +> is named ppp-user and it PROVIDEs ppp-user, hence sysadmins can
> > > +> rightfully assume that its rc.conf.d file is ppp-user, too.  Such
> > > +> assumption will be broken since it is $name that is passed to
> > > +> load_rc_config.  I think $name should be changed to "ppp-user" in
> > > +> CURRENT.  This will introduce minor incompatibility, but also
> > > +> eliminate a source of further confusion.
> > >
> > > It is confusing, but maybe we should rename ppp-user to ppp?
> > > I'm not sure how well sh(1) will handle things like
> > > ppp-user_enable="YES", etc.
> >
> > Yes, this is much better than my lame proposal because so we will
> > have to worry about neither variable naming nor compatibility with
> > installations using ppp and rc.conf.d at once.  We change the PROVIDE
> > line and fix all dependent rc.d scripts, then request the repocopy
> > of ppp-user to ppp, fix /etc/netstart, and finally kill the old
> > file.  Does this plan look OK?
> >
> > P.S. Looks like it's time to move this thread to -rc, setting
> > Mail-Followup-To accordingly.
> 
> Yeah, I was actually surprised it was called /etc/rc.d/ppp-user instead 
> of /etc/rc.d/ppp when I went to setup pppoe at home yesterday.

The ppp-user -> ppp transformation is under way already,
I've just submitted the repocopy request.  There will be
no more confusion with this really soon :-)

-- 
Yar



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