Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:30:13 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/62772: static_routes needs an example in /etc/defaults/rc.conf Message-ID: <200402130730.i1D7UD0A020363@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/62772; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Alain Hoang <hoanga@alum.rpi.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/62772: static_routes needs an example in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:28:59 -0800
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:10:35PM -0800, Alain Hoang wrote:
> The documentation for static_routes in /etc/rc.conf is extremely unfriendly to someone
> without a background in how the system is supposed to work. There is no examples
> in /etc/defaults/rc.conf that can be used by a newbie to figure out this works
> without actually looking at /etc/rc.d/networking and noticing how static_routes
> actually works.
The documentation is (surprise!) in the manpage.
static_routes
(str) Set to the list of static routes that are to be added
at system boot time. If not set to ``NO'' then for each
whitespace separated element in the value, a route_<element>
variable is assumed to exist whose contents will later be
passed to a ``route add'' operation.
Is that really unclear enough to require an example?
Kris
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