Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:21:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc & rc.conf Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.970915001929.28817U-100000@gnostic.cynic.net> In-Reply-To: <199709141135.MAA15300@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
> The problem is that with the "= YES" bit, if you accidently leave the
> variable out of rc.conf (like I did), NO is assumed. With the "!= NO"
> bit, you get the program run by default and have to specifically
> disable it.
I got around (to some degree) this sort of thing with the following
function:
# $NetBSD: rc.subr,v 1.2 1997/08/30 03:34:29 cjs Exp $
# functions used by various rc scripts
# Test $1 variable, and warn if not set to YES or NO.
checkyesno() {
eval value=\$${1};
if [ "$value" = YES ]; then
return 0;
else
if [ "$value" != NO ]; then
logger -s "WARNING: \$${1} is not set properly."
fi
return 1;
fi
}
cjs
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