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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: hoanga@alum.rpi.edu
Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/62772: static_routes needs an example in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:22:28 -0800

 On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:06:20AM -0800, hoanga@alum.rpi.edu wrote:
 > Hi there,
 > 
 > > 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_
 > > 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?
 > 
 > Thanks for the quick response. I had read the documentation
 > in the manpage as well and misinterpreted 'Set to the list of static
 > routes'
 > as 'please insert your static route here' rather than 'please
 > put a list of identifiers that are space seperated that will be used as
 > a 
 > reference to route_ that containts all the options 
 > you need to feed to the route command to add the route'.
 
 The second sentence says precisely that, although perhaps it can be
 clarified..I don't think an example is needed here, but I'll leave it
 up to the manpage people to decide.
 
 Kris