Re: Possible fix for rc.conf
On Sunday, 21st March 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >Why do we need to have ANY of the file inclusion in /etc/defaults/rc.conf? >Shouldn't that file simply be definitions of variables? >IMHO, the "logic" should be in "rc" itself. Yeah! What he said! Having code in rc.conf sucks. If there is no logic, there can be no recursion. If you are going to mix code into rc.conf you may as well just suck it back into /etc/rc and get rid of it entirely. (*) Stephen. (*) Which is silly, of course. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Possible fix for rc.conf
Why do we need to have ANY of the file inclusion in /etc/defaults/rc.conf?
Shouldn't that file simply be definitions of variables?
IMHO, the "logic" should be in "rc" itself.
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Scot W. Hetzel wrote:
> What does everyone think about using this at the end of
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf?
>
> for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
> if [ $0 != $i ]; then
> if [ -f $i ]; then
> . $i
> fi
> else
> echo "Error: $0 isn't allowed to re-load $i."
> echo "Error: Please do not copy /etc/defaults/rc.conf to
> /etc/rc.conf"
> fi
> done
>
> If someone does copy the /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf
> will not reload it's self, thus it will never get stuck in an endless loop.
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Re: Possible fix for rc.conf
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > If someone does copy the /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf > will not reload it's self, thus it will never get stuck in an endless loop. Oh it's too late for that. :) - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Possible fix for rc.conf
"Scot W. Hetzel" writes: >if [ $0 != $i ]; then A more generic fix is for each script to set an environment variable, and check to make sure that variable was not set already. Analogous to how C include files prevent recursive inclusion. -- Rahul Dhesi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Possible fix for rc.conf
What does everyone think about using this at the end of
/etc/defaults/rc.conf?
for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
if [ $0 != $i ]; then
if [ -f $i ]; then
. $i
fi
else
echo "Error: $0 isn't allowed to re-load $i."
echo "Error: Please do not copy /etc/defaults/rc.conf to
/etc/rc.conf"
fi
done
If someone does copy the /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf
will not reload it's self, thus it will never get stuck in an endless loop.
Scot
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