From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 17:28:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1F337B401 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:28:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta03ps.bigpond.com (mta03ps.bigpond.com [144.135.25.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1249843E3B for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyho@bigpond.net.au) Received: from win2000 ([144.135.25.81]) by mta03ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta03ps Jul 16 2002 22:47:55) with SMTP id H2NTBM00.4B2 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:28:34 +1000 Received: from CPE-203-45-119-212.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([203.45.119.212]) by psmam05.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 107/9939635); 19 Sep 2002 10:28:33 Message-ID: <000b01c25f75$a886e3e0$bf01a8c0@x.com> From: "Danny" To: Subject: /etc/rc.conf question Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:44:05 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was trying to add a additional ip address to my test FreeBSD machine by issuing the following command : 1) cp /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf_backup 2)vi /etc/rc.conf 3)I typed in the following entry ifconfig_rl0_alias0="192.168.1.189 netmask 255.255.255.0 When I reboot the computer I get the following error message: Mount root from ufs:/dev/ads1sa /etc/rc.conf 24 Syntax Error: Unterminated quotated string Enter Full path name of shell or return for /bin/sh I have tried typing in cp /etc/rc.conf_backup /etc/rc.conf I have tried typing in fsck then typing in cp /etc/rc.conf_backup /etc/rc.conf How do I get it to restart properly? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message