From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 21:13: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-4.smartworld.net (mrs-4.smartworld.net [216.70.64.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB29837B52E for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 21:13:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from dnormandinfreewwweb (cust162.tnt1.dial.cal1.uunet.ca [209.167.219.162]) by mrs-4.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA23984 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 00:13:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000801bfbd5b$031d7900$a2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com> From: "Duke Normandin" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: shutdown now Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 22:06:06 -0600 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 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Whenever I use ` shutdown now ` to drop into single-user mode, I get the following error message: Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: -> I hit Enter syntax error: Bad substitution I hit ^D and all files are re-read w/o the system checks (which is what I want). How do I get rid of this "syntax" error? -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message