rc.conf when ssid has spaces in it: missing documentation or missing feature?

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Thu Jun 11 20:03:58 UTC 2009


Mel Flynn wrote:
>
> So escape use and escape the quotes with a backslash. You may need more then 
> one backslash, depending on the level of evaluation in /etc/rc.subr and 
> /etc/rc.d/netif.
>   

I believe documentation should describe this since this is a major 
element of setting wireless network up.
If that's more than one backslash that's bad since it makes it cryptic.
I will investigate and will file a PR with patch.

Yuri



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