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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:20:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Philipp  <philipp@globalserve.net>
To: AAZ <187@leopard.com>
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Subject: Re: help!
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it's a short form for test, that's why it's linked to test, when in a
shell script you do the following

if [ -f /var/run/program.pid ]; then
	echo "program already running, exit.."; exit 1
fi

this is in it's long form written

if test -f /var/run/program.pid; then
	echo "program .." ..
fi


Hope that helps,

Peter Philipp (PP2441)
Globalserve System Administration
"How I wish you were here..." - Pink Floyd

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, AAZ wrote:

> 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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