From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 24 10:26:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D1A37B424; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e7OHQXW04754 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:26:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e7OHQlq82861; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:26:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.9.3/8.9.2) id TAA30136; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:26:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:26:42 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Theo PAGTZIS Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with restoring sh Message-ID: <20000824192642.B30092@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <39A4DDE1.17DFE7DC@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39A4DDE1.17DFE7DC@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; from T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:33:37AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:33:37AM +0100, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been upgrading from 3.4 to 4.1 and during the reboot I get a > permission denied when it tries to exec the /bin/sh. I am trying to > restore the file with one that is functioning properly..however I do not > know how I should go about correcting my problem. I would appreciate any > help as I am stranded with a server that is down at the moment... With boot -s you on the loader prompt you can boot into single user mode. If asked for the shell to start try /bin/csh which is a different shell and then fix your problem. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message