From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 21:45: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B939237B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:44:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from spf1.us.outblaze.com (205-158-62-158.outblaze.com [205.158.62.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0452D43F3F for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:44:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from franklin_pierce@operamail.com) Received: (qmail 8924 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2003 05:44:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (205.158.62.68) by spf1.us.outblaze.com with QMQP; 12 Mar 2003 05:44:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 64635 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2003 05:44:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com) (205.158.62.132) by 205-158-62-153.outblaze.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2003 05:44:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 3554 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Mar 2003 05:44:40 -0000 Message-ID: <20030312054440.3553.qmail@operamail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1; format=flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [65.28.11.36] by ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com with http for franklin_pierce@operamail.com; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:44:40 -0600 From: "Franklin Pierce" To: pongkee@yahoo.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:44:40 -0600 Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load X-Originating-Ip: 65.28.11.36 X-Originating-Server: ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Parquette Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:55:07 -0500 To: NOEL BALANSAG Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load > NOEL BALANSAG wrote: > > >hello. > > > >pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the > >command "ee" or "vi"? *snip* > >how do i invoke "ee" or "vi"? is it ok to just edit > >the file "/etc/fstab" and reboot? is there anything > >else i need to do? *snip* > Noel, > From your description I'm assuming you are going into single user mode. > It sounds like fstab is pointing in the wrong place. *snip* Don't forget you'll have to invoke it with a long path name, /usr/bin/ee . another option is to learn the rather hideous syntax of /bin/ed . OK, it's only mildly non-intuitive. "It's a new idea," said Jai. "I'd better go and share it with the club before I become rigid and defensive about it," he added hastily. --Joanna Russ, _And Chaos Died_ -- _______________________________________________ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message