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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 10:13:50 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: rc & rc.conf
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On Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 10:16:39AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> This is a disaster waiting to happen:
>
> /etc/rc.conf:
> [.....]
> inetd_enable="YES"              # Run the network daemon displatcher (or NO).
> [.....]
> cron_enable="YES"       # Run the periodic job daemon.
> [.....]
>
> /etc/rc:
> [.....]
> if [ "X${inetd_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
>         echo -n ' inetd';       inetd ${inetd_flags}
> fi
>
> if [ "X${cron_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
>         echo -n ' cron';        cron
> fi
> [.....]

I'm sorry, I must be too stupid.  What's wrong with that?  And how
does your fix fix it?  Since the flags and the -enable have been
separated, it seems that we *should* insist on the exact string YES
for the enable flags.

Greg