On 31/12/2007, DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Small hint shown to me many years ago when enabling things in rc.conf. > If I want to startup ipfilter for example (trimmed to avoid wrapping). > > bash-2.05b# cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ^ipfilter > > Returns the following, > ipfilter_enable="NO" # Set to YES to enable ipfilter > ipfilter_program="/sbin/ipf" # where the ipfilter program lives > ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules" # rules definition file for ipfilter, > ipfilter_flags="" # additional flags for ipfilter > > If it looks like what you want then write it into your running rc.conf, > > cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ^ipfilter >> /etc/rc.conf >
cat not needed, as grep accepts filenames and < as in grep ^ipfilter /etc/defaults/rc.conf or the above with | $PAGER appended grep ^ipfilter /etc/defaults/rc.conf >> /etc/rc.conf grep ^allsc < /etc/defaults/rc.conf | less sorry, just trying to prevent cat abuse -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
