From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 13 23:20:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03533 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03520 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:20:29 GMT (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA17143; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:20:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:20:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: John Birrell cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the place of vi In-Reply-To: <199804140612.QAA02981@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, John Birrell wrote: > 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 *gasp* don't use vi?? Oh, the sinful, unclean masses. Who shall save them now? What if the disk that your /usr is on crashes (hardware)? I've never been able to mount /usr without fsck'ing it first. My progression always just went: fsck / mount / fsck /usr mount /usr vi /etc/rc.conf mail fullermd < youre.an.idiot exit *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message