Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 18:25:18 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: heller@cdnow.com, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: July 2nd SNAP question. Message-ID: <199807051625.SAA26093@semyam.dinoco.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Jul 1998 21:05:00 EDT." <199807050105.VAA28584@daria.cdnow.com>
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> 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.
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