From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 14:33:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3B916A420 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:33:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: from luke.segpub.com.au (luke.segpub.com.au [64.49.254.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C9243D48 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:33:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: (qmail 86753 invoked by uid 89); 18 Oct 2005 00:33:39 +1000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 86733, pid: 86741, t: 0.8961s scanners: clamav: 0.86.1/m:33/d:984 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?137.43.83.191?) (137.43.83.191) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Oct 2005 00:33:38 +1000 Message-ID: <4353B641.9040108@redry.net> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:33:37 +0100 From: eoghan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4.1 (Windows/20051006) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org References: <435367B3.9050909@redry.net> <4353B31F.3010306@orchid.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <4353B31F.3010306@orchid.homeunix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on luke.segpub.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this: not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:33:40 -0000 Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > eoghan wrote: >> Hello >> Im having problems again with this message when im booting. I get >> several messages like this: >> This: not found > > Every time I see that it's because of missing '#' at the beginning of > the line in a shell script (to mark the line as a comment). > >> About 8 or so of them just before it asks me for my login. It has >> happened before, but i was working with a rather shaky install as i >> wasnt sure what i was doing, well at least i was more unsure then than i >> am now :) >> So im just wondering where i would look to see where its trying to find >> "This"? > > I'd look at starting scripts first. Something like: > > # ls /etc/rc.d/* | xargs grep "This" > # ls /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* | xargs grep "This" > > and see if there's a line starting with 'This' without a '#' at the > beginning somewhere. > >> I did not do much with regards the system. I installed mplayer >> and ogle. They are the only things I could think of, so I removed them. >> Not sure removing them once its a problem fixes things - it didnt in my >> case. Any help is appreciated. >> Thanks >> Eoghan > > Hope that helps. Regards, > > Karol > Thank you for the advice... I will try this and see if I can find where these are coming from. Eoghan