You didn't comment out the end of the if block. See below.
Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear Steve:
>
> I would very much appreciate your help with an error which I
> inadvertently made while using your instructions on how to get rid of
> the ugly penguin. I got rid of the ugly penguin all right, but I also
> got a Failed message during boottime concerning a syntax error in
> unexpected token in line 50 of /etc/rc.d/rc.local/rc3.d/S99local:
> [sher@adsl-77-232-194 rc3.d]$ cat S99local:
>
> I am including it by attachment.
>
> I know nothing about programming, but I did try to see some pattern and
> use my "common sense" to figure this out. Naturally, uninformed "common
> sense", professionally speaking, isn't worth a hoot.
>
> By the way, someone else recommended deleting /etc/issue. I did that but
> the file ?etc/issue was always recreated just the same.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Benjamin
>
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
>
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> #!/bin/sh
>
> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
>
> # Removing it, need to hack the console-tools to have it
>
> #. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
> #
> #if [ "$PCMCIA" != "yes" ] ; then
> # initty=/dev/tty[1-8]
> # for tty in $initty; do
> # setleds +num < $tty
> # done
> #fi
>
> if [ -f /etc/mandrake-release ];then
> R=$(cat /etc/mandrake-release)
>
> arch=$(uname -m)
> a="a"
> case "_$arch" in
> _a*) a="an";;
> _i*) a="an";;
> esac
>
> NUMPROC=$[`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor | wc -l`]
> if [ $NUMPROC -gt 1 ]; then
> SMP="$NUMPROC-processor "
> if [ "$NUMPROC" = "8" -o "$NUMPROC" = "11" ]; then
> a="an"
> else
> a="a"
> fi
> fi
>
> # This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any changes you
> # want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.
> # if [ -x /usr/bin/linux_logo ];then
> # /usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f > /etc/issue
> # echo "" >> /etc/issue
> # else
> # echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue
This line needs to be commented out
> fi
>
> echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
> echo "$R" > /etc/issue.net
> echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue.net
> fi
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