Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:20:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the place of vi Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414011543.16398D-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199804140612.QAA02981@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > Any thoughts on the wisdom of this? I *CAN'T* be the only one who thinks > > this way... > > Some (many?) don't use vi. I do, though, but I just mount /usr to > exit rc.conf. Do you have a funny set up that doesn't let you > boot single user, then: > > mount -u / > mount /usr > vi /etc/rc.conf *gasp* don't use vi?? Oh, the sinful, unclean masses. Who shall save them now? What if the disk that your /usr is on crashes (hardware)? I've never been able to mount /usr without fsck'ing it first. My progression always just went: fsck / mount / fsck /usr mount /usr vi /etc/rc.conf mail fullermd < youre.an.idiot exit *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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