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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:58:54 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        walterk1@earthlink.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/43865: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly
Message-ID:  <20021009195854.GA635@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <200210091910.aa71736@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <200210091713.g99HD2Ut063553@freefall.freebsd.org> <200210091910.aa71736@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:50PM +0100, Ian Dowse wrote:
> In message <200210091713.g99HD2Ut063553@freefall.freebsd.org>, Ceri Davies writ
> es:
> >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> >Pilot error.
> >
> >/etc/rc.conf is sourced by /bin/sh, and therefore must be in valid
> >/bin/sh syntax.
> >
> >If you have garbled /etc/rc.conf (or any of the other startup files),
> >this does not mean that you have to reinstall the system - boot into
> >single user and correct the error.
> 
> I actually think that this is a perfectly reasonable bug report.

It's a change request at best.
Feel free to reopen it if you like, though.

Ceri
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