Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:56:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Armstrong <siberian@siberian.org> Cc: Summoner <summoner@uswest.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990724105637.K84734@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210125b3bec432b792@[216.112.76.84]>; from John Armstrong on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 06:18:34PM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907231248470.12396-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu> <v0421010eb3be5f14df8c@[216.112.76.84]> <37991278.5324A70B@uswest.net> <v04210125b3bec432b792@[216.112.76.84]>
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On Friday, 23 July 1999 at 18:18:34 -0700, John Armstrong wrote: > At 6:10 PM -0700 7/23/99, Summoner wrote: >> John Armstrong wrote: >>> Just make sure >>> root always has a base sh shell for emergencies and your set. >> >> Excuse my newbieness, but why should I have sh for root? So that if >> when screw over my installation again I still have a shell for single >> user mode and (hopefully) fix things? Or does base shell mean >> something else? >> >> My US$.019: I grew up on Bourne-style shells, I'm used to interactive >> command-line editting. So it was key for my learning FreeBSD to use >> bash. I don't need colour, never did. > > Well here was the problem I had. > > I upgraded from freebsd 2.2.8 to 3.0. That means I went from a.out to > an elf based kernel which means that it upgraded all my stock freebsd > binaries. Well, it did _not_ upgrade my tcsh binary since its a port. > When I tried to login in as root at console it could not launch the > shell since it was a.out and not elf. It looks as if you didn't set your ldconfig paths for a.out. It's easy to miss. > This means I was locked out of the machine! You could still have gone single user. > "The term "daemons" is a Judeo-Christian pejorative. > Such processes will now be known as "spiritual guides". " > -Political Correct UNIX Page > ( http://www.baltimoremd.com/technology/newunix.html ) Well, no, they miss the point. It's Greek. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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