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Date:      Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:22:37 -0700
From:      Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Kim Culhan <w8hdkim@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Just updated to 5.3-BETA7 -couple nits
Message-ID:  <20041005172237.GA11000@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20041005133320.41902.qmail@web50701.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20041005133320.41902.qmail@web50701.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Oct 05, "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

I've seen that bogus error message when I make crontab entries that are
too complicated/long.  Putting the command in a separate blah.sh file and
running that file from the crontab (with the exact same text) eliminates
the problem for me...so I suspect something somewhere doesn't like to
interpret long lines.

Mike



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