On 14-May-2000 14:21:26 Ethan Benson wrote: > > but if you really did not modify it... that makes me > suspicious.. maybe you should post the contents, perhaps there is > something bogus that bash just decided to start complaining about > ;-) I just copied over the /root/.bashrc file with an identical-looking file from a floppy, and the error disappeared. There must have been some extraneous character in there which I was unable to see. -- Andrew