scripts may use to source safely overrides in ${rc_conf_files}
files.
This protects users who insist on the bad practice of copying
/etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf from a recursive loop
that exhausts available file descriptors.
Several people have expressed interest in breaking this function
out into its own shell script. Anyone who wants to embark on
such an undertaking would do well to study the attributed PR.
PR: 17595
Reported by: adrian
Submitted by: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
interface on the dhclient command line. Not doing so screws up vmware's
network interface by attempting to configure it for DHCP (which will
never work, of course). It also would impact any other interface that
may be present that, again, would likely be manually configured for
some other purpose.
Approved by: jkh
case instead of test where appropriate, since case allows case is a sh
builtin and (as a side-effect) allows case-insensitivity.
Changes discussed on freebsd-hackers.
Submitted by: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
* All variables are now embraced: ${foo}
* All comparisons against some value now take the form:
[ "${foo}" ? "value" ]
where ? is a comparison operator
* All empty string tests now take the form:
[ -z "${foo}" ]
* All non-empty string tests now take the form:
[ -n "${foo}" ]
Submitted by: jkh
I prefer wide-dhcp, and since both are packages, it should get
equal billing.
PR: 7568
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> & BSD Nomads
I re-wrote alot of this, but the ideas are based on the code from the
most recent pccard-snapshot.
