'for' unexpected.

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Tue Apr 8 10:45:39 PDT 2003


> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:33:02 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Scott Carmichael <freebsd at jobeus.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> Since updating the tree and recompiling the other night, I keep getting
> these errors about 'for' unexpected... When using make to rebuild the
> source tree, when using make to install a port, and also in cron error
> outputs to root at . The error I get there is:
> 
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:11:01 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Cron Daemon <operator at meriadoc.jobeus.net>
> To: operator at meriadoc.jobeus.net
> Subject: Cron <operator at meriadoc> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> 
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf: 438: Syntax error: "for" unexpected
> 
> 
> 
> So, anyways, anyone know what this could be? I can't seem to even type
> a 'for' statement in sh and make it work. Eek.

See the archives. This is a problem reported earlier this week.

Work around:
cd /usr/src/bin/sh
make clean
make
make install
cd /usr/src
make installworld

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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