Re: Adding some consistency to /etc/rc.d/*

Chris Rees <crees@bayofrum.net> wrote:

> When I wrote rclint I was going from "Practical RC scripting in FreeBSD" and existing scripts.  Almost without exception the name= and rcvar= lines were unquoted, and that's the reason I did this.
>
> Once desc= was added then it became natural to quote it, so I suppose the recommendation not to quote short variables may well have been superseded.
>
> Again, to avoid repo churn I don't want to reverse the recommendation with an error but I guess I could just remove the prohibition in rclint on quoted single-word values.

Thanks for the explanation, and for the reason you cite, I personally think that
your proposal is the best course of action.

By the way, nice program!

Thanks, Jamie