Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 20:09:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" <heller@cdnow.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, heller@cdnow.com Subject: Re: July 2nd SNAP question. Message-ID: <199807060009.UAA29507@daria.cdnow.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpsokgq71u.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" at Jul 6, 98 00:14:37 am
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Okay, this makes more sense. I started to feel very stupid with all
the email I got when I assumed the quotes were wrong and should have
been backticks. ( I still think the way it works is a strange but it does
flow with the rest of the design ).
"Doing initial network setup: hostname=machine.name.com" was what I
expected to see. My mistake.
For those of you who suggested I set the variables in rc.conf, thanks, but
I've been doing this stuff for many years. I assumed ( argh ) the system
should operate in a certain way.
Karl
> Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> writes:
> > > echo -n ' hostname'
> > ^ ^
> > You have apostrophe/single quote characters where you need the backtick
> > characters. So echo just outputs the string " hostname" instead of the
> > result of executing hostname.
> No, it's supposed to be like that. The intent is to signal that the
> hostname has been set, not *what* hostname has been set. If you look
> closely at /etc/rc*, you'll se a lot of these "echo -n 'xxx'".
> DES
> --
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