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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: /etc/sysconfig run from both rc and netstart In-Reply-To: gmann@haven.ios.com's message of 13 Mar 1996 20:56:17 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcdenqwoece.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: gmann@haven.ios.com (Glen Mann) Lines: 20 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <4i7cph$gsu@news.ios.com> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:47:14 GMT Our friend, gmann@haven.ios.com (Glen Mann), wrote: > Hello all. > > The file /etc/sysconfig is sourced in both /etc/rc and /etc/netstart. > /etc/netstart is called by /etc/rc. Is there a reason to run sysconfig > twice? Sure. You want the variables to be defined in both. note that it is an 'sh /etc/netstart' rather than a '. /etc/netstart' so everything is not defined in /netstart, so you havwe do define them again.. soren