defaultrouter/static routes not picked up from /etc/rc.conf

[Doug White]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Chris Ochs wrote:

> Yes it was the spaces causing the problem.  You know I've run freebsd for
> what 6 years now and never knew spaces mattered in rc.conf.

Its a shell script, and spaces count in variable names in the shell. I've
made the same mistake since I'm used to just about any other language that
allows it :)

> > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Chris Ochs wrote:
> >
> > > I installed from the 5.2-beta iso two days ago, cvsup'd from current and
> > > rebuilt everything.  On boot up it configures the interfaces fine except
> for
> > > the default route and static routes, it say's that defaultrouter and
> > > static_routes is not set.  I set the defaultrouter and static routes in
> > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf and it picks it up there just fine.  Any ideas why
> > > this happens?
> > >
> > > Here is my /etc/rc.conf
> > >
> >                v try without spaces
> > > defaultrouter ="63.236.114.1"
> > > hostname="ic3.paymentonline.com"
> > > ifconfig_bge0="inet 63.236.114.7 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > > ifconfig_bge1="inet 10.100.2.6 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > >
> > > static_routes = "00"
> > > route_00 = "10.100.0.0/16 10.100.2.1"
> > >
> >
>
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