In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : I'm trying to figure out how to read and use : /etc/rc.conf configuration variables from within : a C program. The standard technique, of course, : is to use a shell-script wrapper and pass the : extracted values to the C program on the command : line. But I want access to _all_ of the rc.conf : variables, not just a couple of them, and I don't : see any reasonable way to accomplish that with a : shell wrapper.
The easy way to do this would be to exec a small shell script that execs /etc/rc.conf, et al, then execs your program. Then it is as simple as getenv... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
