Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:20:05 GMT From: Mike Clarke <jmc-fbsdpr@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/163432: Environment variables set from /etc/login.conf do not have surrounding quote characters removed Message-ID: <201112191420.pBJEK50J090051@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/163432; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Clarke <jmc-fbsdpr@milibyte.co.uk> To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/163432: Environment variables set from /etc/login.conf do not have surrounding quote characters removed Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:13:19 +0000 On Monday 19 December 2011, you wrote: > I still get EXINIT="set ai ic sw=3" on 8.1-RELEASE. Are you sure that > your database is up to date (i.e. you have run cap_mkdb > /etc/login.conf)? Yes, it's up to date but I've just discovered a long forgotten line in .cshrc which was also setting EXINIT and overriding the value from login.conf. After removing the .cshrc line I now get the quotes the same way as you do. The issue only became visible on the new 9.0 system I was setting up because the new user account didn't have a copy of the old .cshrc file. I've now removed the qoutes from login.conf since I now see that they should not have been there. I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by my oversight. This does leave the minor point that the absence of a quoting facility means that it doesn't seem possible to include a comma in the value of an environment variable defined in login.conf, though I doubt if many users will ever need to do this. -- Mike Clarke
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