Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

Jason Helfman jhelfman at e-e.com
Wed Dec 22 20:49:03 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Chris Brennan thus spake:
>On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -0000
>> "Dave" <dave at g8kbv.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!
>> >
>> > Bit of an oversight that I suspect....
>>
>> Fixed in r216651 :)
>>
>
>
>IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (which has been previously discussed
>elsewhere). It's usually safer to use '#' for  comment in /etc/rc.conf and
>other system config files as they typically use BASH style structs.

IMHO...
It seems that /etc/rc.conf is in need of a sytax check script. Something
similiar to visudo for editing /usr/local/etc/sudoers.

-jgh


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