Well I guess that explains :S
Thanks
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org>
wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:08:52PM +0200, Igor Konforti wrote:
> > I was writing Deamon by name "/etc/rc.d/example-client" and all a time I
> > was getting error that ${daemon_user} is "client"
> >
> > After looking at source code of rc.subr
> > <
>
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/rc.d/rc.subr?rev=1.92&conten
t-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
> >
> > I
> > saw the following:
> >
> >
> > ```
> > _name=$(basename $0)
> > eval _rcuser=\${${_name}_user}
> > [ -n "${_rcuser}" ] && daemon_user=${_rcuser}
> > ```
> >
> > So, if we have a deamon by name "example-client" because of eval there
> > will be always $daemon_user:
> >
> > ```
> > -bash-4.2# eval _rcuser=\${example-client_user}
> > -bash-4.2# echo $_rcuser
> > client_user
> > ```
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is bug or the feature, therefore I'm posting this in
> > misc but if you guys confirm it is a bug I'll send it to bugs@
> > This of course can be really fixed really easy.
>
> man rc.subr:
>
> <...>
> DESCRIPTION
> Apart from a few notable exceptions, rc scripts must follow this
> naming
> policy:
>
> 1. Use the same name as the daemon it is referring to.
> 2. Dashes (â-â) have to be converted to underscores (â_â).
>
> --
> Antoine
