this: not found

Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid.homeunix.org
Mon Oct 17 07:20:40 PDT 2005


eoghan wrote:
> Hello
> Im having problems again with this message when im booting. I get
> several messages like this:
> This: not found

Every time I see that it's because of missing '#' at the beginning of
the line in a shell script (to mark the line as a comment).

> About 8 or so of them just before it asks me for my login. It has
> happened before, but i was working with a rather shaky install as i
> wasnt sure what i was doing, well at least i was more unsure then than i
> am now :)
> So im just wondering where i would look to see where its trying to find
> "This"?

I'd look at starting scripts first. Something like:

	# ls /etc/rc.d/* | xargs grep "This"
	# ls /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* | xargs grep "This"

and see if there's a line starting with 'This' without a '#' at the
beginning somewhere.

> I did not do much with regards the system. I installed mplayer
> and ogle. They are the only things I could think of, so I removed them.
> Not sure removing them once its a problem fixes things - it didnt in my
> case. Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks
> Eoghan

Hope that helps. Regards,

Karol

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Karol Kwiatkowski  <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>
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