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Scott Dodson wrote:
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> I've recently cvsupped and now none of the system scripts work.  Everytime
> one of them is run it gives an error "unexpected for".  It seems that my sh
> cannot handle for?  I've rebuild it from the source in the tree and
> reinstalled it, yet nothing works.  Any ideas why?

I had the same problem a couple of days ago.  I took the next best 
bourne compatible shell installed on my system (in my case bash2 from 
ports), moved it to /bin/sh, then booted into multi-user, cvsup'ed to 
the latest sources and eventually rebuilt and reinstalled /bin/sh.

-Andreas