Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:10:20 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: tim@futuresouth.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.network problems/questions Message-ID: <199802201410.IAA15608@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219154021.658U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Feb 19, 98 03:40:33 pm"
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In a previous message, Doug White said: > 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? I use it for dhcp client. It works slick. -- What do you call a blonde in an institution of higher learning? --a visitor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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