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From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Quotes around variable values in /etc/sysconfig
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On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
>
> 0) elegance 1) tradition 2) laziness

    Well, for my own sanity, I have always been doing a :%s/=NO/="NO"/
and :%s/=YES/="YES"/ to /etc/sysconfig when editing it for the first
time on a new system.  It makes absolutely zero difference to the OS,
but it would bug the hell outta me if I just left it like that.  ;-)
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"