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From: Burhan Nazir <burhan@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: FreeBSD <freebsd@datalinkwireless.com>
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Subject: Re: root Error
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Kevin,

It seems that you do not have csh installed on your system.  You have two
options:

1) Install csh so that you can get to root.  Or, the hard way...

2) Drop yourself into single user mode, mount the root partition, edit your
/etc/paswwd file and change the root login shell to a shell that you have
installed, for example /bin/sh or /usr/local/bin/bash.  Reboot the system and
you should be able to get back to root.

Although, I do find it odd that your system does not alreday have /bin/csh
already installed....

-Burhan


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> Hi all.  We have a Free BSD 4.3 machine setup that we are going to get
> working
>  to do bandwidth limiting and bridging.  One day last week I tried to telnet
> into
> the machine from home.  I logged in and tried to su into root and got this
> error-
> 
> su:  /bin/csh:  No such file or directory
> 
> So I figured telnet wasn't working correctly.  So the next day I tried to
> log into the
>  box directly, as root, and it gave me the same  "/bin/csh:  No such file or
> directory" error.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this without too much hassel?  Thanks in advance to
> anyone
> who can help me.
> 
> 
> Kevin Aug
> -Web Designer
> http://www.datalinkny.com
> http://www.datalinkwireless.com
> 
> 
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