Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:57:22 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com> Cc: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion: usbd.conf uses rc.conf for options Message-ID: <20021028115722.GB17000@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <3DBD2442.5050602@semantico.com> References: <20021027193323.C76EA32B3@ns1.rwwa.com> <20021027194710.6AA69AB93@tesla.foo.is> <3DBD2442.5050602@semantico.com>
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:49:22AM +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Baldur Gislason wrote:
> >I agree, that would be a nice feature in usbd, but a workaround to gain
> >the same functionality would be:
> >
> >attach "/usr/sbin/moused `/usr/bin/perl -e 'while(<>) { $foo = $_ . $foo;
> >} if($foo =~ /^moused_flags="(.*?)"$/im) { print $1; }' < /etc/rc.conf` -p
> >/dev/${DEVNAME} -I /var/run/moused.${DEVNAME}.pid"
>
> Why not just:
>
> attach ". /etc/rc.conf; /usr/bin/moused ${moused_flags} -p
> /dev/${DEVNAME} -I /var/run/moused.${DEVNAME}.pid"
>
> (untested)
This had better be ". /etc/defaults/rc.conf; source_rc_confs; ..." :)
I have been thinking for quite some time of writing a little utility
that parses various configuration file mechanisms and allows the
administrator to specify which config mechanism to use for which
program. I have a simple design in mind, which would allow direct
variable setting, use of /etc/rc.conf, use of other configuration files,
use of daemontools-style envdirs, and a couple of others, but so far,
there has been no time to actually start writing a simple
proof-of-concept thing. Funny now, the timing; I was thinking of
writing up a simple rcenv(1) today or tomorrow, and then I saw this
thread :)
G'luck,
Peter
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