Tim Kientzle wrote: [ ... simple script ... ] > This doesn't work. /etc/rc.conf does not export > its variables to the environment. It only sets them in the > local shell. Try the above where 'fred' is > #!/bin/sh > printenv > and you'll see what I mean.
Someone else has already pointed out "set -e". > rc.conf is _not_ a list of variable=value > pairs. It is a shell script that sets > a number of shell variables. Nothing > less than a full-fledged implementation > of /bin/sh is gauranteed to work in all > cases. Then this is broken, and needs to be fixed, not worked around by adding the ability to interpret the code that shouldn't be there. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
