From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 16:30:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from megapathdsl.net (snowbird.megapath.net [216.200.176.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CBF937B423 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jasonc@concentric.net) Received: from [63.209.136.118] (HELO mgm) by megapathdsl.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.3) with SMTP id 19857051 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:29:30 -0700 Message-ID: <006b01c0c85f$d4ab0540$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> From: "jason" To: Subject: rc.conf missing termination quote Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:30:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I added a couple lines to my rc.conf file and seems I forgot to add a terminating quote which now causes the system to not boot properly. I now get a message stating: Enter Path name for SHELL or ENTER for /bin/sh I hit enter to use /bin/sh and am totally unable to use any editor or even as much as copy or rename a file anywhere. All attempts at editing generates a message of: #ed rc.conf /tmp/ed.xxxxx: Read-Only File System Any attempt to use cp or mv generates a message similar to cp: rc.conf: Read-Only File System Any idea how I amy recover my system? I hope a trival problem such as this wouldn't cause catastrophic failure of the system requiing reinstall. I am sure there a totally obvious and simple solution. A search of the handbook turns up a great number of references to the PPP Primer. A search of the mailing list came up completely empty which I found very odd. Thanks Jason Cribbins MGM Communications Echostar Sales and Service To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message