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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Todd M Kokoszka <kokostm@auburn.edu>,
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Subject: Re: locked out of machine
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boot -s .

Then once you are in, mount -u ; mount -a.

Then fix things up.


On Sunday 28 April 2002 04:15 pm, Todd M Kokoszka wrote:
| Hello,
|
| In a previous post I menteiond that the pkg tools deleted my bash shell. I
| don't have a boot disk and can't log onto my machine because my accounts
| are configured to use bash as their shell and the system can't find it. Is
| there any way I can get a boot disk remotely or get into my machine?
|
| Thanks,
| Todd
|
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