From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 13:57:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18768 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:56:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA28783; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:56:42 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:56:41 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Doug White cc: Stan Blocker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Stan Blocker wrote: > > > I just got installed. This is twice I have hosed my system and I do not > > know what keeps causing me to do this. Your help is appreciated. > > > > I su into root. I go to grap a package (cdrom would not mount) with > > modem and abort the install because of painful download speeds. In this > > case I went to get the Mach64_Server. When I try to su back into root > > later in the day I get the error message /bin/csh permission denied. I > > use tcsh and have a friend on with tcsh and his account will not su > > either. Root is not availabel. Needless to say I just became heart sick. > > Do you have a fix for this. I need your help and I thank you. > > Now that is *wierd*. Have you been turning off the system without > shutting down? I had this problem a while back. Never quite figured out what it was, but I got it on my account eventually, too. I found that if I deleted my account, then re-created it, it worked all of a sudden. You could try booting single user and doing that with root. You can also use su -m, which will stick with the shell you're presently using. Not a permanent solution, but it should let you get to root. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | 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-questions" in the body of the message