Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 00:30:36 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/netstart bogons.. Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970426003035.00b3afb0@mixcom.com>
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At 09:31 PM 4/25/97 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >I'm not sure why NO is necessary if it causes no special expansion of >the flags. Again, I'm trying to avoid any and all "dual use" of >variables, only having "NO" be a special value in non-boolean >situations when there's really no other reasonable way of doing it, >e.g. I either have a filename parameter for something or I have "NO" >to denote that the option is turned off entirely. Those are kinda >evil, from a conceptual standpoint, but there are 3-4 instances where >a foo_enable and a foo was just too redundant, and there are no >DEFAULT cases for them in any event so the point is kinda moot. Hmmm... I may have misunderstood, but I can agree with you. Just that I have to account possibilities when I write scripts for techs that have root access (only a bit longer thankfully). Otherwise they know that I do bite. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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