# OpenBSD bro.rc unexpected "(" **URL:** \ **Category:** Zeek\ **Created:** [October 24, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/openbsd-bro-rc-unexpected/887 "2005-10-24T00:23:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://community.zeek.org/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/openbsd-bro-rc-unexpected/887/1 "2005-10-24T00:23:09Z")
Hi, I’ve had the fun of getting Bro installed on OpenBSD and now have a problem with the bro.rc file. Here is the error from the bro.rc: bash-3.00# /usr/local/bro/etc/bro.rc --start /usr/local/bro/etc/bro.rc[476]: syntax error: `(’ unexpected bash-3.00# Here are the corresponding lines form the bro.rc: 468 469 return ${\_start\_res} 470 fi 471 472 return 0 473 } 474 475 476 stop() { 477 # Check to see if bro is running 478 local \_pid 479 local \_bro\_is\_running 480 local \_status\_result 481 482 status 2\>/dev/null \>/dev/null 483 \_status\_result=$? 484 485 if [“${\_status\_result}” = ‘0’]; then 486 # try and stop it Has anyone else seen this error? Thanks, Jeff When working on the install, we had to copy ip\_ether.h to if\_ether.h and then use the gmake 3.8 to get it to work. I’m running OpenBSD 3.8 from the snapshots. Thanks to all who helped! ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_Winslow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@Roger\_Winslow](https://community.zeek.org/u/Roger_Winslow)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/openbsd-bro-rc-unexpected/887/2 "2005-10-24T15:48:21Z")
bro.rc does it's best at catching failures to start but unfortunately doesn't catch it 100% of the time. Sometimes programs that segfault can produce error that you are seeing. It is likely that what is happening is that Bro is unable to start for some reason and the shell script is failing to catch the error. Is there anything in the \*.info file in your $BROLOGS directory after this happens? If so could you send me that? Another thing to try is by starting Bro manually from the command line. I suspect if you do this you will get closer to what the real problem is.            Roger Winslow Jeff wrote: ---
**Author:** ![Camiel\_Dobbelaar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Camiel\_Dobbelaar](https://community.zeek.org/u/Camiel_Dobbelaar)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/openbsd-bro-rc-unexpected/887/3 "2005-11-10T20:02:01Z")
"stop" is an alias that is defined automatically in OpenBSD sh (pdksh): camield@zigzag $ alias stop stop='kill -STOP' I made some other adjustments to bro.rc as well, diff at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/openbsd-bro-rc-unexpected/887/4 "2022-05-06T15:37:43Z")