From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 14:39:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.osd.bsdi.com (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742E437BCFE for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:39:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com) Received: by luna.osd.bsdi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D998E319E; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:39:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:39:24 -0700 From: Jim Mock 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> Reply-To: jim@jmock.com References: <398892E9.52FE7855@sbarc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <398892E9.52FE7855@sbarc.org>; from ke6dcj@sbarc.org on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:30:46PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 and I cannot remove, restore, or edit > 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 -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/~jim/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message