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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: /etc/exports continue line
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 10:38:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178073538.3393.3.camel@raven.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461EA1CC.2050102@cogweb.net>

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:17 -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
> I've been using \ to continue a line in /etc/exports, and ran into an
> odd problem -- if you accidentally hit the TAB key after the continue
> line and save, the entry becomes invalid. Since the TAB key is
> invisible, it can be difficult to figure out what's going on.
> 
> I reported it as Debian bug 418491 to nfs-kernel-server, and the
> maintainer responded by saying \ isn't a valid continue character.

Well, he's right.

As far as I remember the line continuation has always been "\<NL>",
otherwise you get a solitary <NL> which would end the entry.

> Comments? I routinely do this sort of thing:
> 
> /spare \
>         165.97.21.130(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,async) \
>         165.97.21.132(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
>         165.97.21.133(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
>         165.97.21.134(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
>         165.97.21.135(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,async) \
>         165.97.21.136(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
>         165.97.85.112(rw,no_subtree_check,async) \
>         165.97.85.117(rw,no_subtree_check,async)
> 
> A lot easier to maintain that a single line. Is there an alternative way
> to continue the line?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: Bug#418491: nfs-kernel-server: Lots of misleading error
> messages if there's a TAB in /etc/exports
> Date: 	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:06:27 +0200
> From: 	Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
> To: 	David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>, 418491-done@bugs.debian.org
> References:
> <20070410023140.32254.14380.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
> <20070411002242.GD8811@uio.no>
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:22:42AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> >> Try this: edit /etc/exports and add a TAB after a \ (continue line). For instance, mine uses
> > \ isn't supported as continue line, TTBOMK.
> 
> Thus, closing this one; forgot to do so last time.
> 
> /* Steinar */


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-02  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-12 21:17 /etc/exports continue line David Liontooth
2007-04-12 21:37 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-12 21:38 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-12 22:10   ` David Liontooth
2007-04-13  0:49     ` Mike Frysinger
2007-05-02  2:38 ` Ian Kent [this message]

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