Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:42:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Kim Culhan <w8hdkim@yahoo.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Just updated to 5.3-BETA7 -couple nits Message-ID: <20041006014239.19881.qmail@web50706.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041005165957.U3095@bo.vpnaa.bet>
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--- Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Kim Culhan wrote: > > > > >> From the couple small nits dept.. > > > > After running mergemaster and rebooting, the boot hung with: > > > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf: 517: Syntax error: EOF in backquote > > substitution > You actually should not have ANY backquotes in rc.conf[.local], so > either you're doing something that you shouldn't be, or you > accidentally > typed a stray backquote when trying to type something else. Either > way, > if you find the stray ` in your file somewhere, you should be well > on > your way to fixing the problem. mergemaster was run without editing any of rc.* so not sure where the backquote came from and thanks BTW for the word on the error message :) > You can test this for yourself without rebooting by doing 'sh -x > /etc/rc.conf'. If your file is "clean" you will get no errors, just > a > list of variables being set. >HTH, Very muchly, thanks for taking the time to reply. -kim _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com
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