Turned out to be "statically vs dynamically linked"
thing.  The tool chain was slightly different
as I had made some changes to it.

statically linking solved the problem.

# file /sbin/route
/sbin/route: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not
stripped
# file /sbin/route.orig 
/sbin/route.orig: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel
80386, version 1, statically linked, stripped

----
Thanks
Shiva

--- Jaromír Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> wrote:
> Hum, seems like ELF vs. a.out issue. What version of
> system
> and architecture do you use ? What does 'file
> /sbin/ifconfig'
> say ?
> 
> Jaromir
> 
> 
> 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
> > 
> > These seem to be coming from the /etc/rc.d/network
> > script. The lines route -n flush and ifconfig
> lo0...
> > seem to trigger this error. 
> > 
> > I have tried adding fully path names to these
> lines as
> > /sbin/route and /sbin/ifconfig and I get the same
> > errors.
> > 
> > Even DHCP client seems to get the same error:
> > ifconfig: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> > 
> > However if I do a manual "dhclient" after booting
> up,
> > dhclient works fine. route and the ifconfig
> commands
> > work just fine after the bootup.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what is casuing the "syntax" errors?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Shiva Shenoy
> > 
> > 
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