On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:26:12PM +0000, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:30:47PM +0200, Paul Irofti wrote: > > Be more specific about the order of interpretation. Okay? > > > > diff --git share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 > > index b07459f..aa8446f 100644 > > --- share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 > > +++ share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 > > @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ A configuration file is not needed for lo0. > > The configuration information is expressed in a line-by-line packed format > > which makes the most common cases simpler; those dense formats are > > described > > below. > > +The order of the configuration lines matters, they are interpreted from the > > +top down. > > Any lines not matching these packed formats are passed directly to > > .Xr ifconfig 8 . > > The packed formats are converted using a somewhat inflexible parser and > > > > if we say this, then we should provide guidance to folks about how to > order the lines. what is the specific problem, or the general rule, that > you are addressing?
Problem: /etc/hostname.iwn0: dhcp nwid foo wpakey bar Gets neighbour's lease then drops it then gets the lease from the foo network using the bar wpakey. Solution: /etc/hostname.iwn0 nwid foo wpakey bar dhcp Sets the network to foo and associates a password to it and then tries to get a lease. Order matters. Perhaps there's a better way to phrase it but, as far as guidance goes, I guess it's not quite possible to do that because ifconfig alone has a plethora of possible usages.
