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

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR bin/118503; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: Ammad Shah <mammadshah at hotmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/118503: sysinstall  and /etc/rc.conf
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:28:36 +0100

 Ammad Shah wrote:
 
 > 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. 
 
 The file is read in sequence, so repeated lines do not cause a problem. 
   This is just a cosmetic issue.  Typically sysinstall is not 
 recommended or used as a post-install administration tool though.
 
 Kris