From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Mar 7 16:40: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EBD37B416 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g280e2J43512; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:40:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203080040.g280e2J43512@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: bin/35648: rc.conf; add note about "flags" to both files Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/35648; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/35648: rc.conf; add note about "flags" to both files Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:35:09 -0800 On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:58:18PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: [snip] > The /etc/rc.conf and /etc/default/rc.conf files should have a comment > near the top noting that "_flags" may be interpreted as "_options" > and that "flags" always need a leading "-". The correct place for this kind of documentation would be the rc.conf(5) manpage. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message