/etc/rc.conf: 18: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Dec 3 20:16:57 PST 2005


On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 07:05:16PM -0800, Jose Borquez wrote:
> I just recently did a make buildworld, make buildkernel, make install 
> kernel, make installworld, and mergemaster in that order.  When I login 
> as root I get the following email message:
> 
> Subject: Cron <operator at daemon> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
> 
> /etc/rc.conf: 18: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

Are you sure this is your exact rc.conf, since it is not 18 lines
long?

1 > ifconfig_tx0="inet 172.16.1.6  netmask 255.255.0.0"
2 > moused_enable="YES"
3 > moused_type="auto"
4 > sshd_enable="YES"
5 > usbd_enable="YES"
6 > ntpd_enable="YES"
7 > enable_quotas="YES"
8 > check_quotas="NO"
9 > clear_tmp_enable="YES"                  # YES has to be in capital letters
10 > ipfilter_enable="YES"                   # Start ipf firewall
11 > ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules"         # loads rules definition text file
12 > ipmon_enable="YES"                      # Start IP monitor log
13 > ipmon_flags="-Ds"                       # D = start as daemon

Kris
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