From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 11 17:46:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2FE106566C for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:46:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD318FC0C for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1072 invoked by uid 399); 11 Oct 2010 17:20:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 11 Oct 2010 17:20:01 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CB34750.2030303@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:20:16 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <1286397912.27308.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <51B4504F-5AA4-47C5-BF23-FA51DE5BC8C8@vicor.com> <4CAD513F.3010903@DataIX.net> <4CAD7563.1070706@DataIX.net> <87fwwici02.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com> <4CAF26DB.3060706@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4CAF26DB.3060706@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2a1pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: sysrc -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:46:43 -0000 On 10/8/2010 7:12 AM, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > On 7.10.2010 15:42, Warren Block wrote: >> Consider also the docs that tell the user to >> echo 'something_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf >> >> which can produce duplicate and possibly differing entries. Or >> non-working entries if there was no ending \n present, or even a broken > > like forgetting to add two '>' and not having a backup :) > >> rc.conf that breaks startup. You cannot program around stupidity. :) -- Breadth of IT experience, and | Nothin' ever doesn't change, depth of knowledge in the DNS. | but nothin' changes much. Yours for the right price. :) | -- OK Go http://SupersetSolutions.com/