On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Shiva Shenoy wrote:

> I have made some changes to the /sbin/ifconfig and
> /sbin/route sources and replaced the binaries.
> 
> Now when I reboot, I get these synatx errors at
> startup:
> 
> ifconfig: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> route: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Sounds like your tool chain is out of sync with your kernel. These types
of messages often occur when the kernel can't guess what kind of file a
binary is - it ends up guessing it's a shell script, which then gets
confused by the binary data. :-)

Take care,

Bill