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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:04 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: backticks in rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20090721132104.0a3a7bda@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ljmi1dyq.fsf@kobe.laptop>
References:  <d36406630907210146m4e84c7dbpd55776168a50090c@mail.gmail.com> <20090721112920.c174849b.freebsd@edvax.de> <87ljmi1dyq.fsf@kobe.laptop>

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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



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