From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 12:17:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D424106566B for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1317E8FC08 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so876163gwb.13 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:17:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tkve4p209TL9cFljKoldvrtskSrlcOfQwK7AQdl05wg=; b=QP3NiA/CzkOag7Ah8h1x2nRQPjci+PaJLIfXwIOvzyH/Ye9uYBe2nA09WHtnEgFMMG uEIrb+zoO76kU+qo2Qr6um1qsn67M+Ota11EmXQ6ss0gBtqhdxo3ZteKz9g8SEGR/jaL EyyDoZACpYgJty3GdudM4/4sul2/szeKIosi0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=MoqVjkB7UXpCNxOgQ3940Ibemw33OLF664bJRlGqj0VlbgshtLrfwiGER5wIUtnIaJ 4TetRRZHKjAoQsIBQTJhEsLSAcECPJOODijci+hEqcoSt/hy9FMVJPx72QUKYez6EuEO W2WBLJ7/3zKWgaWtFb9xn4PSI4pDewZ+lBNv8= Received: by 10.224.10.204 with SMTP id q12mr2427758qaq.326.1285849038356; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (173-161-130-225-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.161.130.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r36sm10845849qcs.15.2010.09.30.05.17.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CA47FCB.7040100@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:17:15 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dieter@schoen.or.at References: <20100930091422.kozt65xtwkwkkks4@webmail.edis.at> In-Reply-To: <20100930091422.kozt65xtwkwkkks4@webmail.edis.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A little correction for 10.1 of the FreeBSD faq X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:17:19 -0000 Hi there! On 9/30/10 3:14 AM, dieter@schoen.or.at wrote: > hi, > > First, I am a very beginner at FreeBSD. > I found a little incorrectness in the FAQ. > > 10.1 contains an example how to enable a service: > > # echo named_enable="YES" >> /etc/rc.conf > > In this form the quotes will be eaten by the shell and will not make > it into the rc.conf file. > Something like > > # echo 'named_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf > > would work. > > Nevertheless, it also works without the quotes. But as quotes are used > in all the other entries, it would also be good practise to add them > in this example. > Functionality should not be affected, but I agree it would be best to keep consistency. I have a patch pending approval to fix this particular case. > I do not know whether this is the right address to tell, but I am > fascinated by BSD. I have long suffered with the horror of Windows > and the chaos of Linux, but learning to know FreeBSD feels like coming > home. > Yes, for Handbook/FAQ stuff, this is the place. Glad to hear you are enjoying FreeBSD! -- Glen Barber