Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:05:30 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Alan Bawden <Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: messing with /etc/rc.conf Message-ID: <19990114170530.A16311@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <14Jan1999.003932.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <8Jan1999.042549.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990108192746.B63511@scientia.demon.co.uk> <9Jan1999.220116.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> <19990110041754.A94335@scientia.demon.co.uk> <14Jan1999.003932.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU>
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Alan Bawden wrote:
> To review: I recently noticed that the line in my rc.conf file that used to
> read:
>
> ntpdate_flags="-bs $(/usr/bin/awk '$1 == "server" || $1 == "peer" {print $2}' /etc/ntp.conf)"
I note you found sysinstall was truncating this, and there seems to be
a fairly simple solution after a quick look at the source. Just stick a
"#" right at the end of the line (there must be a space before it, of
course):
ntpdate_flags="-bs $(/usr/bin/awk '$1 == "server" || $1 == "peer" {print $2}' /etc/ntp.conf)" #
This is because sysinstall tries to keep comments, so it will copy the
whole line, rather than stopping after the first matching quote. Look at
/usr/src/release/sysinstall/config.c, the configRC_conf function around
line 360. This works on my system anyway (3.0-current).
--
Ben Smithurst
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