From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 22: 1:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE68937B8FA for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 22:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA49389; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:01:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:01:14 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Duke Normandin Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: shutdown now Message-ID: <20000514010114.D48538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <000801bfbd5b$031d7900$a2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <000801bfbd5b$031d7900$a2dba7d1@dnormandinfreewwweb.com>; from dnormandin@freewwweb.com on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:06:06PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:06:06PM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote: > 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? Is it something in root's .profile? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message