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From: "G.A.Grjetarsson Sysadmin of islandia.is" <gambri@islandia.is>
To: Barry Soben <bsoben@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu>
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Subject: Re: root problem
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You'll have to bootup in single shell,
at bootup use -s flag to go into single shell,
if the file system is readonly, you'll have to remount the
filesystem so it will get normal for reading and writing data

when you have the filesys normal, type: chfn root
and edit the shell line,

in my case I let the root have bash shell, so the
line I put for root was:

Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash

try this, and reastart the system



On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Barry Soben wrote:

> I changed the shell on my root account from csh to tcsh..  When I try to
> login as root, I can't because it says it can't find /bin/tcsh.  IS there
> any way to fix this without reinstalling the system?
> 
> Also, I thought, perhaps tcsh didn't get installed..  I used my boot floppy
> to get into sysinstall but when I tried to reinstall tcsh, (selected package
> and said extract it), the computer reboots itself!
> 
>