Christopher Cowart wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:45:48PM +0200, Gunther Mayer wrote:
Hi there,
I got a low key server who is wirelessly connected to the net using an
SSID that contains a space. In rc.conf I define the ifconfig line for
configuration of my wireless interface upon bootup, but the entire line
reads something like
ifconfig_ath0=' inet 192.168.0.1 ssid "my network" '
No matter how I tweak the quotes (single then double, other way round,
with lots of \\) I never get my interface to configure properly upon
bootup and I need to get to the console to fix it up. I thought I knew
shell syntax but this is beyond me or manpages...
What's the right way to do this?
One approach would be to navigate the series of function calls defined
in /etc/network.subr. I just took a brief look, but it's not immediately
obvious how many times you're going to have to escape exactly what to
get the behavior you desire.
Another option would be to make the file /etc/start_if.ath0, containing
the line `ifconfig ... ssid "my network"`. This file would be sourced
when /etc/rc.d/netif starts the network interfaces, before the rc
variable ifconfig_ath0 is run. You can then omit the variable
ifconfig_ath0 from /etc/rc.conf.
For more hints, look in /etc/netif, /etc/network.subr, and /etc/rc.subr.
Thanks for all your ideas guys, I really appreciate the help. Finally
got some time to try all of your suggestions, though backwhacking (\)
the space and/or the quotes makes no difference so I decided in the end
to stop fighting the quoting wars and to just use /etc/start_if.ath0
which works perfectly. Not quite as neat as having everything live in
/etc/rc.conf but it does the trick.
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