ddclient config file generated buy GUI contains invalid end of lines

[Styx13]

Hello,

I found out today after editing the configuration of ddclient via the GUI that it some characters were being added at the end of some lines:

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syslog=yes                  # log update msgs to syslog
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid   # record PID in file.
verbose=yes

use=cmd, cmd="/usr/local/opnsense/scripts/ddclient/checkip -t 0 -s freedns --timeout 10", \
protocol=porkbun, \
apikey=my_secret_api_key, \
secretapikey=my_secret_secret_key, \
login=my_secret_api_key, \
password=my_secret_secret_key \
my.fully.qualified.hostname

Those ", \" are effectively making the configuration invalid/confusing to ddclient and causing errors like:

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WARNING: Could not determine an IP for my.fully.qualified.hostname
WARNING: my.fully.qualified.hostname: unable to determine IP address with strategy use=cmd
WARNING: found neither IPv4 nor IPv6 address

After manually removing the extra ", \" and " \" from the configuration file and restarting ddclient, everything works fine again!

OPNSense version: OPNsense 25.1.5_5-amd64

PS: I know that the documentation recommends moving to the "native" client, however, I use porkbun for resolution of some of my domains and the native client does not support it.

[franco]

> Those ", \" are effectively making the configuration invalid/confusing to ddclient and causing errors like:

You'd be the first after thousands of users and a year or two of this running fine? Did you draw the right conclusion?


Cheers,
Franco