From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 17: 1:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c000.paix.cp.net (c000-h002.c000.paix.cp.net [209.228.15.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07E8E1540F for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 17:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: (cpmta 20429 invoked from network); 17 Apr 1999 16:59:18 -0700 Received: from usr5-ppp150.lvdi.net (HELO lvdi.net) (216.24.141.150) by smtp.lvdi.net with SMTP; 17 Apr 1999 16:59:18 -0700 X-Sent: 17 Apr 1999 23:59:18 GMT Message-ID: <37192175.646FF7E9@lvdi.net> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 17:04:05 -0700 From: notme Organization: me++ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: whs@technologist.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help - messed up /etc/rc.conf References: <199904172349.BAA02981@netsurf.choin.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had this problem couple day ago also. Just hit return, then go to rc.conf under /etc, and edit it. You should be able to find a parameter with a missing ". for example: hostname = "host All you need to do now is just add the " back... :) Hope this helps. :) Frankie "Christian A. Weiser" wrote: > need help > > I installed BSD last week and started to setup the networking > tonight. > After I rebootet the computer it did not go to the login - this came > up: > /etc/rc.conf: 16: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > How can I fix it without reinstalling everything. > > thanks > > Christian > > e-mail: whs@technologist.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message