Syntax error in /etc/profile?

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Thu Sep 3 14:04:20 UTC 2015


On 09/03/15 21:11, Tom Horsley wrote:
> When I log in to my f22 box as a users that has ksh as
> the shell, I see this show up on my terminal:
>
> /etc/profile[68]: .: syntax error: `(' unexpected
>
> Line 68 is just a line that is "dotting" various /etc/profile.d/*.sh
> files, so I don't know where the actual error is coming from.
>
> Anyone else seen this?

Yes....

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ ssh maria at acer
maria at acer's password:
Last login: Wed Jul 15 22:37:03 2015
/etc/profile[68]: .: syntax error: `(' unexpected

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