I'm in the process of reorganizing my rc stuff to take advantage of individual /etc/rc.conf.d files (as opposed to just using a monolithic /etc/rc.d). I just noticed something that surprised me, and I'm wondering if this is expected or not. If so, then if there's a way to get things to operate...
I have stumbled on a glitch of sysrc (apparently).
I am trying to set a system variable to a string containing quotes like so:
# sysrc -f "$rootDir/etc/rc.conf" ssh_tunnel_connection_1="abc \"def\" gah"
ssh_tunnel_connection_1: abc def gah -> abc def gahdef gah
# sysrc -f...
Fun with sysrc. Tested on
tingo@kg-core1$ uname -a
FreeBSD kg-core1.kg4.no 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #0 r310083: Wed Dec 14 21:00:13 CET 2016
root@kg-core1.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Testing commences (yes, spelling errors are intentional)
tingo@kg-core1$ mkdir...
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