nomenclature for conf files

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 08:29:28 UTC 2012


On 12 Nov 2012 05:20, "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

All three are fine in make.conf and rc.conf

The issue with rc.conf is when people put spaces around the = sign.

Chris


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