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From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
To: Alan Bawden <Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: messing with /etc/rc.conf
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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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