From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 9 23:56:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni-sb.de (uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E3E14DE5 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:55:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE) Received: from cs.uni-sb.de (cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.31]) by uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999070600) with ESMTP id IAA11894; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:55:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.247.1]) by cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999031900) with ESMTP id IAA19370; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:55:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (IDENT:mSJQrsXK6OR5cOyew3KqRRH+bSW9JcQS@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.1/8.9.1/wjp-SVR4/1998063000) with ESMTP id IAA17061; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:55:43 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199911100755.IAA17061@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:55:41 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: "man" reads /etc/rc.conf? To: archie@whistle.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199911092127.NAA35683@bubba.whistle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 9 Nov, Archie Cobbs wrote: >> (101) netchild@ttyp2 > man -k adadadad >> cat: /etc/isdn/connect.parameters: Permission denied >> adadadad: nothing appropriate >> >> (102) netchild@ttyp2 > grep cat /etc/rc.conf.local >> spppconfig_isp0="`cat /etc/isdn/connect.parameters`" >> >> Is this just my system or is man really reading rc.conf(.local)? > > ktrace(1) would tell for sure.. Yes, but I'm shure it reads it without using ktrace. rc.conf.local is the only place where I have a "cat /etc/isdn/...." (I've looked into /etc/defaults/{rc,man}.conf and /etc/{rc,man}.conf{,.local}). I will try ktrace later (back at home), if someone wants to see the output request it please. Bye, Alexander. -- Actually, a more important date is January 1, 2000, when many computer programs across the world could break. Richard W. Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, _1993_ http://netchild.home.pages.de A.Leidinger @ WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message