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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!news.cirrus.com!usenet From: Clint Wolff <clint_w@colorado.cirrus.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [: not found - problems on bootup Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:23:18 -0700 Organization: Cirrus Logic, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <328A0406.167EB0E7@colorado.cirrus.com> References: <nigel.12.00159202@znet.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: longs.colorado.cirrus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Nigel Gorry wrote: ; ; HELP... ; ; when I rebooted my machine today I got lots of messages like: ; ; [: not found ; ; and it would not bootup fully ; ; Any ideas?? ; ; Thanks ; ; Nigel The command '[' is located in /usr/bin (I think... this is where it is on my SunOS box)... It is generally the same file as 'test'... It sounds to me like /usr is not getting mounted correctly, or /usr/bin has been corrupted... Or possibly the shell script executing '[' has the path set incorrectly... clint -- Underscores added to return address to defeat advertising engines. clintw@colorado.cirrus.com