From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 14: 8:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89A637B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@pengar.com) Received: from [216.64.45.172] (helo=[192.168.99.123]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #5) id 14VEPV-0001bS-00; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:09:01 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:00:45 -0500 From: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" Reply-To: chad@pengar.com To: Jim McIver , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.conf Message-ID: <3435902277.982688445@[192.168.99.123]> In-Reply-To: <3A9278ED.4528.473C052@localhost> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.5 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try this in the shell that comes up mount /dev/whateverdiskisroot / Chad --On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:02 PM -0007 Jim McIver wrote: > Well, things were going pretty good until I edited the rc.conf file and > must have a typo on line 16. > > It won't read the file and came up with the /bin/sh shell, but I can't > seems to get access to the file to fix it. > > I can do an ls of etc and see the file but can't copy, delete, etc.. > because it's ro. I made a backup of the orginal rc.conf with another > name, but can't copy it over. > > How do I set my enviroment and give myself rights to change or cp > the file? > > Regards, > > Jim McIver > Systems Technician > Lewiston Morning Tribune > PO Box 957 > 505 C. Street > Lewiston ID 83501 > jmciver@lmtribune.com > www.lmtribune.com > 208-743-9411 Ext. 254 > 208-746-1185 fax > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Pengar Enterprises, Inc. and Shire.Net LLC Web and Macintosh Consulting -- full service web hosting Chad Leigh chad@pengar.com chad@shire.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message