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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:28:30 -0600
From:      AAZ <187@leopard.com>
To:        Scott Sewall <scott@iprg.nokia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help!
Message-ID:  <199807160038.SAA26783@smtp.leopard.com>
In-Reply-To: <35AD452A.167EB0E7@iprg.nokia.com>
References:  <199807152259.QAA23984@smtp.leopard.com>

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Hi all,
Thanks, I'm a newbie to this and yes that was the problem. I went to the
2nd cdrom, and found the [ binary. Brought the network up manually and
moved it over. 
Rebooted and everything is A-OK. Now, can anyone explain to me what the
function of the [ binary is?

thanks a ton everyone.
-aaz

At 05:11 PM 7/15/98 -0700, Scott Sewall wrote:
>As noted by tom@uniserve.com, a program named [ should be
>in /bin. This program is a link to /bin/test. No need to
>restore from backups.
>
>>From my system:
>  % ls -li /bin/[ /bin/test
>  239 -r-xr-xr-x  2 bin  bin  45056 Mar 24 17:51 /bin/[*
>  239 -r-xr-xr-x  2 bin  bin  45056 Mar 24 17:51 /bin/test*
>
>If you have /bin/test then all you need to do is create
>the link for [.
>
>-- Scott
>
>
>
>AAZ wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> I have been running freeBSD for about a 2 weeks now with no problem. Today
>> I was just configuring some printer stuff and everything was working fine.
>> Anyways, I rebooted the box and when it came back up it the console pompt
>> said "freeBSD (Amnesiac)".
>> 
>> During bootup the system got done fscking the main disk, turned on the swap
>> partition (swapon) then began and spitting things out on the console in the
>> form:
>> [: not found
>> [: not found
>> Starting network daemons: [: not found
>> [: not found
>> 
>> bizarre. Need help please!
>> thanks a ton.
>> 
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