Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:40:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.network problems/questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219154021.658U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980219043436.31978@futuresouth.com>
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Tim Tsai wrote:
> in /etc/rc.network we have these lines:
>
> for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
> if [ -e /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
> . /etc/start_if.${ifn} ${ifn}
> fi
>
> but to my best knowlege, the "." builtin doesn't take parameters.
>
> Why am I missing?
>
> if I create a start_if.fxp0 file, for example, that looks like this:
>
> ifconfig $1 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
>
> the $1 expands to nothing.
>
> What am I missing? Is everybody else hardcoding the interface name into
> start_if.ifn?
ifconfig lines tend to be system-specific, so why would you bother?
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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