On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:37:47PM +0100, Mitja Mu?eni? wrote: > # sh /etc/netstart pppoe0 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFGENERIC(SPPPIOSDEFS): Device busy > > The reason turned out to be a whitespace character after the \ sign in > hostname.pppoe0. > > Simplest way to recreate is to take the example from man and add a > whitespace at the end of the first or second line after \.
I didn't play with this at all, but if it worked for you before then you were lucky, I'd say. Only when \ is the last character should the line be continued. If something (stripcom?) was removing trailing spaces then I'd say that's a side-effect, and should not be relied upon. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
