From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 11: 5:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0122A1575C for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA01310 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:56:53 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37274D3A.2C71B801@csl.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:02:34 +0000 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: [Fwd: chmod to death!] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Forwarded to the list as per convention;-). Adam Nealis wrote: > > davebullock@dwindledistribution.com wrote: > > > > were would my filesystem be mounted? > You have to mount it yourself by hand IIRC. So I suppose you > need to remember how to mount /. > > I would try > > mkdir -p /mnt/root > mount /dev/wd0s1a /mnt/root > > and you ought to have your "real" root partition under > /mnt/root. so > > cd /mnt/root > > and you can start to fix the permissions. > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > Subject: Re: chmod to death! > > From: Adam Nealis at internet > > Date: 4/28/99 5:28 PM > > > > davebullock@dwindledistribution.com wrote: > > > > > > I really blew it... I did 'chmod -R 4755 /' > > > Now I can't log in. I have tried doing upgrade and install and neither have > > > worked. When I try to use a holographic shell it just says 'Error ( expected' > > > and when I put an open parenthesis in front of my command it gives me a '>' > > and > > > then when I enter commands on that line nothing happens all I can do is 'Ctl- > > C' > > > out of it. > > > > > > What can I do to save my system or do I have to newfs? > > Can you boot the live filesystem on CD 2 of the > > distribution? That should give you access to your filesystem > > mounted and also some utils in /mnt2/stand and /stand. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Name: RFC822.TXT > > RFC822.TXT Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > > Encoding: 7bit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message