Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 08:39:50 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: none none <menwn@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MESS Message-ID: <4471BF26.4090307@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200605221251.k4MCpKeS004107@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200605221251.k4MCpKeS004107@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> if i enter single user mode it dasen't seem to recognize many commands:
>> starrtx, ee, pico, emacs etc so i cannot change my /etc/fstab in case this
>> is the problem.
>
> Yes. Generally none of those extra things are availiable in single user.
> Single user is minimal and does not have services started nor anything
> but root mounted and root is mounted in a special non-write way.
>
> You need to learn enough 'vi' editor to fix problems in these types
> of situations because generally vi will be available even when the
> others are not usable.
Whoops! Are you sure about that last statement?
[admin@foobar][~]
whereis vi
vi: /usr/bin/vi /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz /usr/src/usr.bin/vi
So, in single-user without /usr mounted, how is he
going to run vi(1)? And if /usr *is* mounted, you can
call pico, emacs, whatever, (even vi) provided $PATH
is established or you care to call 'em directly.
I hereby admit to being a vi wimp. I did memorize 'q:!',
for obvious reasons; and, this isn't about an editor war,
either.
Personally, I moved a binary of e3 (ports/editors/e3) into
/bin and created the following:
[admin@foobar][/bin]
cat /bin/ee
#!/bin/sh
/bin/e3pi
--- so I wouldn't have to deal with ed(1) if stuck in
single-user.
Kevin Kinsey
--
Then there was the Formosan bartender named Taiwan-On.
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