Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:48:33 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Sandy Rutherford <sandy@krvarr.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file Message-ID: <20050220144833.GG4471@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <16916.22919.40934.655595@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca> References: <03fb01c51457$3f246ff0$0b01a8c0@enigmedia.net> <1108595484.708.8.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> <4213F7A1.3030304@cis.strath.ac.uk> <20050217020202.GB34810@mail.oss.uswest.net> <16916.22919.40934.655595@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:44:55AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:02:02 -0600, > >>>>> Jamie Novak <novak@qwest.net> said: > > > I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the list, > > but is there any reason you can't just mount the filesystems and use vi > > as you're used to? If you're getting far enough in the boot process to > > get an opportunity to interact with a shell, you should just be able to > > mount -a and vi whatever. (Or, if you want to play it safe (or if the > > system wasn't cleanly shutdown before), fsck and then mount -a) > > This should work fine. Although, depending on where he is in the boot > process, / may be mounted read-only. Do `mount -uw /' to make it > read-write. > > The lesson here is that when editing any file that is even remotely > connected to the boot process, _make_a_backup_copy_. You can then > simply mv the backup copy back into place should you mess up. Actually, Absolute BSD has a handy suggestion about using rcs for all important files in /etc/. Maybe you should try looking into that. > > Sandy > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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