From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 5 14:49:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14438 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 14:49:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from techpower.net (hometeam@techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14406 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 14:49:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00281; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 17:50:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 17:50:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Jt To: Stefan Eggers cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, heller@cdnow.com Subject: Re: July 2nd SNAP question. In-Reply-To: <199807051625.SAA26093@semyam.dinoco.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG been that way forever. hometeam@techpower.net --We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd-- -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 owEBqwBU/4kAlQMFADRCxNWhsddKSTR+6QEBelED/jzeC3btZfqSdIfrNoCgwUJJ iNQ33UQoMyJ2ygkfl72xP5J79yml/F4P73GnNaDVbaMOmOG2NNAi5ElE73wRh54U 17kH+n5XnYeqekV8T2TG2Q6ex3UotXPyZ1vvrCrSxapOz6a4hh0GQeA55rcwLy2W ROHwxfvaVsrX5iVOkRoerBFiC21lc3NhZ2UudHh0AAAAAA== =jCvF -----END PGP MESSAGE----- On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Stefan Eggers wrote: > > This code from rc.network displays "Doing initial network setup: hostname" > > > > network_pass1() { > > echo -n 'Doing initial network setup:' > > # Set the host name if it is not already set > > if [ -z "`hostname -s`" ] ; then > > hostname $hostname > > echo -n ' hostname' > ^ ^ > > fi > > > Anybody else see this or just me? > > You have apostrophe/single quote characters where you need the backtick > characters. So echo just outputs the string " hostname" instead of the > result of executing hostname. > > > Also, who do I talk to about making some changes to the sysinstall program? > > If you have the finished just send a PR. Otherwise it would be wise to > ask first if someone sees a problem with what you intend to do. It is > probably best in hackers or stable. For package installation in ports. > Just what I think, of course. :-) > > > When do the current ports get upgraded? I was very surprised to see > > I suppose they just take the state at the time the SNAP gets created. > > Stefan. > -- > Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, > Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. > 51109 Koeln > Federal Republic of Germany > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message