nomenclature for conf files

Kurt Buff kurt.buff at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 05:20:15 UTC 2012


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:
> It might sound stupid, but I'd like to know if there's
> any difference. Are those 3 line the same?
>
> WITH_KMS=YES
> WITH_KMS="YES"
> WITH_KMS=yes

With regard to their use in /etc/rc.conf, no, absolutely not.

In general, from my experience, only the second one will work.

This might, or might not, be true for other uses, but rc.conf is
pretty picky about this.

Kurt


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