this: not found

eoghan freebsd at redry.net
Mon Oct 17 07:33:40 PDT 2005


Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> 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
> 

Thank you for the advice... I will try this and see if I can find where 
these are coming from.
Eoghan


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