sysrc -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al.

[Anonymous]

Devin Teske <dteske at vicor.com> writes:

>>> ############################################################ GLOBALS
>>> 
>>> # Global exit status variables
>>> : ${SUCCESS:=0}
>>> : ${FAILURE:=1}
>> 
>> Should this really be set to something other than 0 or 1 by the
>> end-user's environment? This would simplify a lot of return/exit
>> calls...
>
> A scenario that I envision that almost never arises, but...
>
> Say someone wanted to call my script but wanted to mask it to always return with success (why? I dunno... it's conceivable though).
>
> Example: (this should be considered ugly -- because it is)
>
> FAILURE=0 && sysrc foo && reboot

Wouldn't this bork functions used inside a conditional?

  : ${FAILURE:=1}
  foo() { return ${FAILURE-1}; }
  if ! foo; then
      echo good
  else
      echo error
  fi

  $ test.sh
  good
  $ FAILURE=0 test.sh
  error

I think only sysrc_set() is affected, though.

  if sysrc_set "$NAME" "${1#*=}"; then
          echo " -> $( sysrc "$NAME" )"
  fi

  $ sysrc hostname=blah
  hostname: raphael.local
  sysrc: cannot create /etc/rc.conf: permission denied
  $ FAILURE=0 sh sysrc hostname=blah
  hostname: raphael.local
  sysrc: cannot create /etc/rc.conf: permission denied
   -> raphael.local