In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kientzle cleopede:
>Terry Lambert wrote:
>
>> Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>>I'm trying to figure out how to read and use
>>>/etc/rc.conf configuration variables from within
>>>a C program.
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # Throw all of rc.conf into the environemnet so a C program
>> # named "fred" can read any of them with "getenv".
>> . /etc/rc.conf
>> fred
>
>
>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.
Try using the "set -a" command before reading rc.conf and
it will work:
#!/bin/sh
set -a
. /etc/rc.conf
exec yourprog
Greg Shenaut
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