Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:55:15 -0800 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, yuri@rawbw.com Subject: Re: rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature? Message-ID: <200906111155.15644.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <4A315B15.5030000@rawbw.com> References: <4A315B15.5030000@rawbw.com>
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On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:29:25 Yuri wrote: > I can't find any references in rc.conf(5) on how to set up ifconfig line > if SSID has spaces which is very typical situation. > ifconfig(8) doesn't mention this either but it works if I put quotes > around it. So escape use and escape the quotes with a backslash. You may need more then one backslash, depending on the level of evaluation in /etc/rc.subr and /etc/rc.d/netif. > I would assume spaces should be substituted for '_' like in Linux. But I > remember I wasn't able to make it work for some reason. The reason probably being that underscores are different characters from spaces and FreeBSD not making assumptions on things really being other things. -- Mel
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