Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:12:06 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Shell scripting question Message-ID: <5045F0637A62EE469942AAB4@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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I'm thinking about writing an rc.subr script that sucks in variables from a =
conf file. Since the rc.firewall script does just that, I thought I'd take =
a look at it. But I can't understand what it's doing.
Here's the code:
# Suck in the configuration variables.
if [ -z "${source_rc_confs_defined}" ]; then
if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/defaults/rc.conf
source_rc_confs
elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/rc.conf
fi
fi
Neither rc.conf nor source_rc_confs appears anywhere else in the script, so =
how does this suck in the variables? And what does the syntax ".=20
/etc/rc.conf" do?
Here's what I understand so far. If the variable source_rc_confs_defined=20
is a zero length string, then if /etc/defaults/rc.conf is readable, then do =
something with it. I have no idea what the next line "source_rc_confs"=20
does. Else, if /etc/rc.conf is readable, then do something with that.
Can someone explain what all this does please?
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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