Re: Three-Line service comments

[Mark . Burgess]

On  3 Aug, Tim Auckland wrote:
> I understand, but many sysadmins are used to using this comment style
> and there are a number of software packages that automatically install
> themselves in this way, so if I can use cfengine to maintain the file
> as-is then I can concentrate on configuring cfengine for our site,
> rather than the other way round.  We have a lot more systems than I have
> cf files.  :-)
> 
> Another multi-line problem I've encountered is systems that use the '\'
> character for continuation lines, eg HP-UX 11 systems often contain a
> line in inetd.conf like:
> 
> tftp        dgram  udp wait   root /usr/lbin/tftpd    tftpd\
>         /opt/ignite\
>         /var/opt/ignite
> 

These are things that could be added, surely enough.

M

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