This is a situation where 'ed' is your friend. If you want something more robust for these 'oops'es, check out UTS Global. They have a full screen 3270 editor (ned) that runs under Linux and is specifically intended for this situration.
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:14, Brian France wrote: > People, > In playing around today with MDISKS, sharing between linux instances, > adding dasd to instances, I made a boo boo. I accidentally did a #cp logoff > and not a disc. So, I booted the instance but it comes back in a safe mode > due to me in the process of adding dasd to it, saying it can't mount the > "new" dasd cause it might have a bad superblock. It tells me to repair it > manually and reboot. So I figure since I can log in as root, and change > over to r/w mode, I'll just undo my changes, and start over. Well, vi, > 3270, it's not pretty. SO, before I up and nuke this instance and start > over, it made me curious if I was missing some way to repair it. I figure > sometime in the future I will probably need it to fix a production > instance. Is there another way to edit, remove my changes, and reboot the > instance? THANX!!!!! > > > Brian W. France > Systems Engineer I > Pennsylvania State University > Administrative Information Services - Infrastructure/Sysarc > Rm 25 Shields Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802 > 814-863-4739 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Rich Smrcina Illustro Systems International rsmrcina at illustro.com Catch the WAVV! Update your zSeries skills in 4 days. WAVV 2005 in Colorado Springs, CO May 20-24, 2005 For details see http://www.wavv.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
