Strange message: --: not found

[P. U. Kruppa]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Jun 14), P. U. Kruppa said:
> > I have to admit I have been playing around with NIS/NFS . Everything
> > seems to work fine, but I keep receiving messages like this:
> >
> > 		-------------------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:00:00 GMT
> > From: Cron Daemon <operator at small.pukruppa.de>
> > To: operator at small.pukruppa.de
> > Subject: Cron <operator at small> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
> >
> > --: not found
>
> Check to make sure you don't have a typo domewhere in /etc/rc.conf;
> save-entropy reads it and so does the bootup process.  You can probably
> debug it further by running "sh -x /usr/libexec/save-entropy", which
> should tell you exactly the line that's generating that error.
Arrrrgh! Indeed I had a line like this:

mountd_flags="-r"# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Jun 14 07:42:38 2003

Sorry for the question.

Uli.

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