From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 10 5:57:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54AE153A2 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 05:57:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24746 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:57:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:57:15 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911101357.OAA24746@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "man" reads /etc/rc.conf? Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de wrote in list.freebsd-current: you wrote (9 Nov 1999 21:13:42 +0100): > (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`" Using command substitution in /etc/rc.conf{,.local} is NOT officially supported. I think it should have always been clear that there should _only_ be plain variable assignments. That's probably just because you never know which programs try to read them. > Is this just my system or is man really reading rc.conf(.local)? I think that's perfectly legal. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message