From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 9:43:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diskfarm.firehouse.net (rdu25-12-043.nc.rr.com [24.25.12.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E016037B423 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00904; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:43:05 GMT (envelope-from abc) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:43:05 +0000 From: Alan Clegg To: Terry Rossi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT HELP PLEASE Scripts No Longer Working Message-ID: <20000824164305.D411@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Clegg , Terry Rossi , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001701c00dc6$6b48e940$7dbc08cf@pics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <001701c00dc6$6b48e940$7dbc08cf@pics.com>; from tpr@pics.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 08:25:41AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of the ether, Terry Rossi spewed forth the following bitstream: > $ periodic > [: not found > [: not found > [: not found > usage: basename string [suffix] > [: not found > Subject: picspc01.pics.com run output Somebody removed [. Look for /bin/[ and see that it does not exist! Then, having discovered that it is *NOT* something that is a goof and needs to be removed, perform the following surgery: ln /bin/test /bin/[ And continue on with life as it was before the "cleanup" was done that removed [. AlanC {been there, done that, fixed it and never got a shirt} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message