Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

[Timothy Luoma]

On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Hexren wrote:
I am not that great at bash but look in /etc/rc.firewall for the line
where it says: ". /etc/defaults/rc.conf" I think this line includes
/etc/rc.conf into the running script and as code in rc.conf is
evaluated at the time it is included, all the variables defined in
rc.conf are created at that time in your script. (you do realize that
for example gateway_enable="YES" is an variable declaration with
initialization when read as shell script ?)
Hexren is right, ". /some/file" does mean "include /some/file" 
(sometimes called "source")

#!/bin/sh
. /etc/rc.conf
if [ "$gateway_enable" = "YES" ]
then
        echo "yes, this machine is a gateway"
else
        echo "no, this is not a gateway"
fi
exit 0
TjL
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