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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:39:24 -0700
From:      Jim Mock <jim@jmock.com>
To:        neil@villacortabuer.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot incomplete- Syntax error in rc.conf - Can't erase or rename rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20000802143923.A534@luna.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <398892E9.52FE7855@sbarc.org>; from ke6dcj@sbarc.org on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:30:46PM -0700
References:  <398892E9.52FE7855@sbarc.org>

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On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 at 14:30:46 -0700, neilv wrote:
> I'm getting the following error on FreeBSD 4.1-stable:
> 
> "/etc/rc.conf: 16: Syntax Error: Unterminated quoted string
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:"
> 
> I enter <RETURN> and I cannot remove, restore, or edit <rc.conf>
> since it says:
> READ-ONLY file system
> 
> Can anyone help?

mount -u /

Then edit rc.conf and add the missing quote to line 16.

- jim

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