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From: Philipp Mergenthaler <philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: Re: Re: bin/50365: [PATCH] rc.sysctl cannot handle values
	containing spaces
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The following reply was made to PR bin/50365; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Philipp Mergenthaler <philipp.mergenthaler@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org,
	christopher.rodgers@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk
Cc:  
Subject: Re: Re: bin/50365: [PATCH] rc.sysctl cannot handle values containing spaces
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:28:58 +0200

 I'd like to see this fixed, too.
 The original patch doesn't apply on -current anymore (because of
 the new /etc/rc.d), though. Below is an updated version.
 
 
 Index: etc/rc.d/sysctl
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /ncvs/src/etc/rc.d/sysctl,v
 retrieving revision 1.12
 diff -u -r1.12 sysctl
 --- etc/rc.d/sysctl	24 Apr 2003 08:20:47 -0000	1.12
 +++ etc/rc.d/sysctl	7 Oct 2003 07:47:52 -0000
 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
  					${val})
  						;;
  					*)
 -						sysctl ${var}
 +						sysctl "${var}"
  						;;
  					esac
  				elif [ "$1" = "last" ]; then
 Index: share/man/man5/sysctl.conf.5
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /ncvs/src/share/man/man5/sysctl.conf.5,v
 retrieving revision 1.15
 diff -u -r1.15 sysctl.conf.5
 --- share/man/man5/sysctl.conf.5	9 Jan 2002 16:09:00 -0000	1.15
 +++ share/man/man5/sysctl.conf.5	7 Oct 2003 07:34:07 -0000
 @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
  sysctl_mib=value
  .Ed
  .Pp
 +Spaces must be escaped with a backslash.
 +Do not enclose the value in quotation marks.
  Comments are denoted by a
  .Dq #
  at the beginning of a line.  Comments can also exist at the end of a line,