From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 13 23:13:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02723 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:13:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlogic.com.au [203.36.2.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA02691 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:13:47 GMT (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.7) id QAA02981; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:12:46 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199804140612.QAA02981@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: the place of vi In-Reply-To: from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Apr 14, 98 01:05:41 am" To: fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:12:45 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > Any thoughts on the wisdom of this? I *CAN'T* be the only one who thinks > this way... Some (many?) don't use vi. I do, though, but I just mount /usr to exit rc.conf. Do you have a funny set up that doesn't let you boot single user, then: mount -u / mount /usr vi /etc/rc.conf -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message