Re: stuck in single-user mode

2004-05-03 Thread Christian Hiris 
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 02:26, William wrote:
 hi, i'm more or less a newbie to BSD administration. anyway, i forgot to
 close a quote on one of the lines in /etc/rc.conf. now the server on boots
 into single-user mode. problem is it won't let me edit the file so i can
 fix it. it goes into read-only mode. even if i could write to the file i
 can't seem to find vi or any other editor for that matter. any ideas on how
 i can get back into multi-user mode. all help is much appreciated. i'm
 running 4.4 current on an pentium III box.

 thanks in advance

 William Benson

when your systems has booted into single user mode, hit CR when promted for 
a shell. then enter the following commands: 
  
# adjkerntz -i
# swapon -a
# fsck -p
# mount -u / 
# mount -a -t ufs
# ee /etc/rc.conf (or # vi /etc/rc.conf)
# reboot

regards
ch

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stuck in single-user mode

2004-05-03 Thread William 
hi, i'm more or less a newbie to BSD administration. anyway, i forgot to close a quote 
on one of the lines in /etc/rc.conf. now the server on boots into single-user mode. 
problem is it won't let me edit the file so i can fix it. it goes into read-only 
mode. even if i could write to the file i can't seem to find vi or any other editor 
for that matter. any ideas on how i can get back into multi-user mode. all help is 
much appreciated. i'm running 4.4 current on an pentium III box.

thanks in advance

William Benson
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