nomenclature for conf files

Kurt Buff kurt.buff at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 15:35:14 UTC 2012


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

This has not been my experience - but I will experiment soon and see
if I can verify.

Kurt


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