rc.conf.d improvement

Jilles Tjoelker jilles at stack.nl
Fri Sep 5 19:59:17 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:47:52PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> The attached patch does two things:
> 
> 1) Add /etc/rc.conf.d to BSD.root.mtree so it's created during
>    installation;
> 
> 2) Modify rc.subr so that if /etc/rc.conf.d/<service> is a directory,
>    all of the files it contains are included.

> Comments or objections?

Conceptually it is ok, but I have a comment about the implementation of
2).

> [snip]
> Index: etc/rc.subr
> ===================================================================
> --- etc/rc.subr	(revision 269808)
> +++ etc/rc.subr	(working copy)
> @@ -1290,8 +1290,14 @@
>  		_rc_conf_loaded=true
>  	fi
>  	if [ -f /etc/rc.conf.d/"$_name" ]; then
> -		debug "Sourcing /etc/rc.conf.d/${_name}"
> +		debug "Sourcing /etc/rc.conf.d/$_name"
>  		. /etc/rc.conf.d/"$_name"
> +	elif [ -d /etc/rc.conf.d/"$_name" ] ; then
> +		local _rc
> +		for _rc in $(/bin/ls /etc/rc.conf.d/"$_name") ; do
> +			debug "Sourcing /etc/rc.conf.d/$_name/$_rc"
> +			. "/etc/rc.conf.d/$_name/$_rc"
> +		done
>  	fi
>  
>  	# Set defaults if defined.

Please don't try to parse ls output, since this introduces problems with
special characters and is slower than globbing. You can do something
like

for _rc in /etc/rc.conf.d/"$_name"/*; do
	if [ -f "$_rc" ]; then
		debug "Sourcing $_rc"
		. "$_rc"
	fi
done

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker


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