From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 17:26:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9063A16A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:26:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ack.Berkeley.EDU (ack.berkeley.edu [128.32.206.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F54843D46 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:26:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from mhunter@localhost) by ack.Berkeley.EDU (8.11.3/8.11.3) id i95HMbN12309; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:22:37 -0700 From: Mike Hunter To: Kim Culhan Message-ID: <20041005172237.GA11000@ack.Berkeley.EDU> References: <20041005133320.41902.qmail@web50701.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041005133320.41902.qmail@web50701.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just updated to 5.3-BETA7 -couple nits X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:26:25 -0000 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