Hi all, Does anyone have any ideas about this - surely a good thing to know how to edit files in recovery mode?
Or do I need to attach a bribe!?!? :) Jeff On 30 Jul 2012, at 11:29, Jeff Jones wrote: > Hi all, > > I used the BX Centos 6 based recovery mode for the first time last week. > > After booting fro the iso and getting through initial recovery - I finally > managed to get through to the basic shell to see my file system. I just > needed to edit a few config files. > > However - when I tried to 'vi' anything, my config file shows up - however > none of the usual 'vi' commands seemed to work. For instance 'I' did not > enable edit mode. > > On examining the Centos website, there is a section about recovery mode, in > which it mentions something about 'joe' which is another editor. It clearly > states that if you type 'vi' commands, you will get joe instead. But I can't > find any trace of 'joe' on the cd or disk. > > All I can see in /user/bin is vi - but it's not itself - seems badly broken > or something. > > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
