Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:57:15 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "man" reads /etc/rc.conf? Message-ID: <199911101357.OAA24746@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de wrote in list.freebsd-current: you wrote (9 Nov 1999 21:13:42 +0100):
> (101) netchild@ttyp2 > man -k adadadad
> cat: /etc/isdn/connect.parameters: Permission denied
> adadadad: nothing appropriate
>
> (102) netchild@ttyp2 > grep cat /etc/rc.conf.local
> spppconfig_isp0="`cat /etc/isdn/connect.parameters`"
Using command substitution in /etc/rc.conf{,.local} is NOT
officially supported. I think it should have always been
clear that there should _only_ be plain variable assignments.
That's probably just because you never know which programs
try to read them.
> Is this just my system or is man really reading rc.conf(.local)?
I think that's perfectly legal.
Regards
Oliver
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