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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: conf/62772: static_routes needs an example in
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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