Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:45:09 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How to move vi to /bin Message-ID: <200905151745.09871.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <4A0D0FD6.4040107@gmail.com> References: <cb0fa7b70905130021t390bb560r4a1dd64ab3b2e79@mail.gmail.com> <200905142019.56242.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A0D0FD6.4040107@gmail.com>
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On Friday 15 May 2009 08:46:46 Manish Jain wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: > >> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in > >> single-user mode. > > > > The only reason to need an editor and not have /usr and /var available is > > to edit /etc/fstab. It is trivial to spot errors with /rescue/cat and fix > > with /rescue/sed, without having to worry about a terminal. > > > > In all other cases: > > fsck -p > > /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal start > > /etc/rc.d/ldconfig start > > > > And one can use any editor one would want. Don't forget to export or > > setenv TERM to cons25 from 'dumb'. > > From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to > place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has a skewed policy on the issue. There > are plenty of reasons you might need access an editor in single-user > mode - editing fstab is just one. You didn't read what I wrote. The above works in single user mode and does not magically transform you to multi-user. Just reboot in single user mode, type the above and then /usr/bin/vi /etc/rc.conf. You will see that it works. In fact, if you have vim installed, /usr/local/bin/vim /etc/rc.conf will work. -- Mel
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