[18380] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux : is-linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Oct 6 16:20:22 2000
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 16:20:18 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200010062020.QAA10007@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: Angie Kelic <sly@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18379] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Oops, this was regexp lossage, in order to preserve itempotence, the
script was making sure SYNCCONFIG wans't already in the file before
adding it. The problem is that the comment made it look like it was
already there. I've submitted a patch to tighten the regexp. This
will go out in an 8.4 patch release, but I'm not sure which one. I'm
closing your report now, but thanks for lettign us know about hte
problme.
Jonathon
> What's wrong:
> It contains the comments:
> athena% more /etc/athena/rc.conf
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Set up configuration variables.
> # Variables containing '*' in the comment are only functional if
> # SYNCCONFIG is set to true.
>
> but there is no SYNCCONFIG variable in /etc/athena/rc.conf
>
> Is SYNCCONFIG still used as a variable? Are these comments
> outdated? What package is supposed to install the SYNCCONFIG
> line to /etc/athena/rc.conf? Is it not doing so? Or only
> doing so intermittently?
