conf/118503: sysinstall and /etc/rc.conf

[Ammad Shah]

>Number:         118503
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       sysinstall  and /etc/rc.conf
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 09 02:30:00 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ammad Shah
>Release:        6.2
>Organization:
Creative Chaos
>Environment:
FreeBSD fbsd.csquareonline.local 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007     root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:

i am new to Free-BSD, but i have experience on Linux (RHEL/Fedora/Suse).there is problem when ever i run sysinstall to configure ethernet devices. it appends a new line in /etc/rc.conf, whereas it should modify the previous entry that was created by  user or system. like in linux when i modify ip using "setup" / system-config-network, it modifies /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. 

According to my point of view its a bug in freebsd. and it should be removed from it. 


thanks.
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