From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 5 17:11:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22598 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 17:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from socko.cdnow.com (socko.cdnow.com [209.83.166.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22576 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 17:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heller@daria.cdnow.com) Received: from daria.cdnow.com (daria.cdnow.com [209.83.166.60]) by socko.cdnow.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA26588; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 20:11:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from heller@localhost) by daria.cdnow.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29507; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 20:09:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" Message-Id: <199807060009.UAA29507@daria.cdnow.com> Subject: Re: July 2nd SNAP question. To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 20:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, heller@cdnow.com Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" at Jul 6, 98 00:14:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 > -- > One two, one two, one two. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- A. Karl Heller - Senior Systems Engineer - heller@cdnow.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. Do something unusual today. Accomplish work on the computer. >>>>> HTTP://CDNOW.COM - BIGGEST FASTEST BEST <<<<< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message