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From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Subject: Re: bin/43865: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly
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The following reply was made to PR bin/43865; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/43865: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:20:18 +0100

 On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:36:08PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 > [-- Please keep bug-followup@freebsd.org in the Cc: list. --]
 
 > One of the ideas I had and never actually got around to implementing
 > was a shell wrapper around $EDITOR that allows root to edit rc.conf
 > and then checks to see that sh(1) can still parse the resulting file.
 > 
 > Something along the lines of:
 > 
 > 	# viconf
 > 	>>> copy /etc/rc.conf to /tmp/rc.conf.orig.$$
 > 	    and /tmp/rc.conf.$$$
 > 	>>> fire up $EDITOR on /tmp/rc.conf.$$$
 > 	>>> check to see if the following command works fine:
 > 
 > 		/bin/sh -c '. /tmp/rc.conf.$$'
 > 
 > 	>>> on failure, show a diff -u, and prompt the user for
 > 	    a) abort, e) edit again
 
 Sounds good.  lockf is your friend.
 
 Ceri
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