Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:50:42 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: Bara Zani <bara_zani@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vi a Joke ? Message-ID: <3BF9B6F2.6090506@owt.com> References: <001e01c17134$0d6f2370$fd6e34c6@mlevy> <3BF964F5.7080905@owt.com> <004601c17162$eed90be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: >>One point people forget and that is what can >>you use when you mess up rc.conf and your system >>will only boot into single user mode. Learning >>vi at that point is a painic :). >> > > Can't you just restore the previous copy of the file and reboot? You made a > backup copy of the last bootable version of the file before you changed it, > right? It is all too often a one line change and no one does a backup then. That is what gets them in trouble to begin with. It doesn't happen that often and I have always been able to mount /usr and correct the error using my editor of choice. The thing you can't do is re-ftp a corrected version or do an nfs_mount to pick up the backup. Occasionally, we see files that are corrupt because they have <cr><lf>'s on the end of the line. kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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