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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 15:58:31 -0700
From: "Scott J. Kramer" <sjk@cisco.com>
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In-Reply-To: Wayne Hernandez <hernanw@FSL.ORST.EDU>
        "problem with amdump" (Sep  9, 11:37)
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On Sep 9, 11:37, Wayne Hernandez wrote:
> Subject: problem with amdump
> I'm getting the following message from amdump:
> 
> PATH:/usr/local/libexec/amanda: Command not found.
> Bad : modifier in $ (/).
> 
> This is on FreeBSD 2.0.5

Looks like you're getting the equivalent of this tcsh error:

  sjk@halo> setenv PATH $PATH:/
  Bad : modifier in $ (/).

Put {}'s around the envariable name (e.g. ${PATH}) to fix that, but `amdump'
is a bourne shell script so make sure it's being executed as such.

-sjk

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