Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 01:57:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Stefan Bethke <stb@transit.hanse.de> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I withdraw the fraggin question. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980416015013.26188A-100000@transit.hanse.de> In-Reply-To: <19980416002643.A16381@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Ollivier Robert wrote: > Speaking of static shells, my static copy of tcsh inside /sbin saved my > machine yesterday... > > It crashed (softupdates I think) during "make installworld" leaving /bin/sh > as "rw-------" which makes booting rather difficult :-) > > Booting single user and using /sbin/tcsh as shell enabled me to "make > installworld" again and getting my system back without going to fixit > floppies... It is useful to have a shell not affected by "make world" > inside "/". I'm happy for you, but *any* standard mechanism would be affected by 'make world'. Now, without starting the thread again, I can understand why people are not quite eager to use 'ed', but if it only is used to recover from some simple mistake in /etc/fstab, why not use /stand/ee or the fixit floppy? And, as it has been said by many other in this thread, where do you want to draw the line? At /bin/sh? At /bin/vi? At /usr/local/bin/emacs? I think we have all the tools to recover; and if you don't like them, make your own fixit floppy (using i.e. PicoBSD). -- Stefan Bethke Muehlendamm 12 Phone: +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009 D-22087 Hamburg <stefan.bethke@hanse.de> Hamburg, Germany <stb@freebsd.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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