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From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject: Re: conf/8031: /etc/rc looks for /etc/sendmail.cf at startup 
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The following reply was made to PR conf/8031; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. Sm rgrav )
Cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>,
        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/8031: /etc/rc looks for /etc/sendmail.cf at startup 
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:32:32 +0100

 > Studded <Studded@dal.net> writes:
 > > 	This isn't directed towards Drew, but technically the RHS of the test
 > > should be "XYES" instead of how it is now. The '=' conditional compares
 > > strings, so the LHS is correct, and it should be the same on both sides.
 > > [...]
 > > >  ! if [ "X${sendmail_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
 > > >         echo -n ' sendmail';    /usr/sbin/sendmail ${sendmail_flags}
 > > >    fi
 > 
 > The X is totally unnecessary as long as you have quotes around the
 > variable to make sure you get an empty string (rather than a missing
 > argument) if it's undefined or empty.
 [.....]
 
 Not if someone's set (say) ``sendmail_enable=-x'' ;-)  The only 
 unnecessary bits are the {} around the variable and the quotes around 
 the YES, but the quotes make it clearer that the X isn't *really* part 
 of the comparison.
 
 > DES
 > -- 
 > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
 
 -- 
 Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>
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