Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 21:44:17 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving /tmp Message-ID: <p04330113b655fb08837c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20001207181808.A317@northernbrewer.com> References: <20001207181808.A317@northernbrewer.com>
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At 6:18 PM -0600 12/7/00, Christopher Farley wrote: >Here's what I did: > ># cd / ># cp tmp /usr ># mv tmp tmp.old ># ln -s /usr/tmp tmp > >After a reboot, I am now unable to run startx. The screen goes >black, the keyboard shuts off... > >How do I begin to clean up my mess?? boot up in single-user mode. remount / rw so you can modify it. (or maybe just shutdown into single user mode). cd / mv tmp tmp.link mv tmp.old tmp shutdown -r now ...that's my guess. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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