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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: backticks in rc.conf
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:04 +0100, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:18:37 +0300
>Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>> There's a catch here that may go unnoticed for a while...
>>
>> rc.conf may be sourced by /etc/rc *long* before filesystems are
>> mounted.  As a result grep or awk may be not be available and stop
>> rc.conf from loading.
>
> rc.conf is sourced for each rcng script

Yes, I should have avoided 'may' as it sounds hypothetical.  Every rcng
script sources rc.conf :)