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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: conf/34392: rc.network patch to allow ifconfig aliases to change without renumbering them all 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:50:02 PST."
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:50:02 PST, Ian Dowse wrote:

>  But see conf/21695:
>  
>  	http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21695
>  
>  It describes exactly the same problem, and I proposed a version of
>  your idea that avoids the use of awk by using sh builtins only.

Any reason you haven't committed it?  If it's just that you don't feel
this is your area, I can assure you that the only person who could be
thought of as the rc* maintainer (Doug Barton), isn't very active right
now and I'm sure he'd welcome the change.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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