Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 01:48:37 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: Alan Bawden <Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: messing with /etc/rc.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901080147150.25797-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <8Jan1999.042549.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Alan Bawden wrote:
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 04:41:34 -0500 (EST)
> From: Alan Bawden <Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: messing with /etc/rc.conf
>
> There is a comment at the front of /etc/rc.conf that says:
>
> # All arguments must be in double or single quotes.
>
> It's not clear exactly what the restriction here is, but I recently learned
> that if rc.conf contains the following:
>
> ntpdate_flags="-bs $(awk '$1 == "server" || $1 == "peer" {print $2}' /etc/ntp.conf)"
>
> something will occasionally re-write this to read:
>
> ntpdate_flags="-bs $(awk '$1 == "
>
> So I have two questions:
>
> 1. What is it that makes this change. And what exactly are the rules it
> applies when parsing/rewriting the file?
>
> 2. If I move the setting of ntpdate_flags into /etc/rc.conf.local, will
> whatever this thing is leave it alone there?
>
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