From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Oct 9 12:58:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59C637B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF92B43E42 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:58:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 17zMys-0000Al-00; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 20:58:54 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:58:54 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Ian Dowse Cc: walterk1@earthlink.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/43865: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly Message-ID: <20021009195854.GA635@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Ian Dowse , walterk1@earthlink.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org References: <200210091713.g99HD2Ut063553@freefall.freebsd.org> <200210091910.aa71736@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210091910.aa71736@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:50PM +0100, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <200210091713.g99HD2Ut063553@freefall.freebsd.org>, Ceri Davies writ > es: > >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > >Pilot error. > > > >/etc/rc.conf is sourced by /bin/sh, and therefore must be in valid > >/bin/sh syntax. > > > >If you have garbled /etc/rc.conf (or any of the other startup files), > >this does not mean that you have to reinstall the system - boot into > >single user and correct the error. > > I actually think that this is a perfectly reasonable bug report. It's a change request at best. Feel free to reopen it if you like, though. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message