From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 17:42:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF77F16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:42:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www6.web2010.com (www6.web2010.com [216.157.5.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF9643D45 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:42:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MLandman@face2interface.com) Received: from Delliver.face2interface.com (ooukyyl@inoc202-203.veranet.net [216.238.202.203] (may be forged)) by www6.web2010.com (8.12.10/8.9.0) with ESMTP id j07HfmFf008685; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:41:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050107123523.01f4f298@mail.face2interface.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:42:00 -0500 To: Peter Risdon From: Marty Landman In-Reply-To: <1105118459.708.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050106184116.01f2aa80@mail.face2interface.com> <20050107053638.GE27020@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107074632.03093500@mail.face2interface.com> <1105103142.708.136.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107091811.01f21c78@mail.face2interface.com> <1105108254.708.141.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107094403.030a3d38@mail.face2interface.com> <1105110920.708.152.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107102842.01f00398@mail.face2interface.com> <1105115565.708.165.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107115026.03103bd0@mail.face2interface.com> <1105118459.708.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: clearing space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:42:07 -0000 At 12:20 PM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > > > > >No - you ought to be able to su to root still. Live and learn. That worked, guess I can read up on su myself to understand the difference. >One thing that does occur to me: what is your user's shell and, if it >isn't bash, do you have bash installed? And have you changed the root >shell from csh? I suspect the latter. I'm not even aware of how to know the answers to these. > > >If you can boot onto a FreeBSD CDROM it'd be easy to fix this. No need now, is there? >The keyboard will almost certainly work after a reboot. That's good to know. >If not, you've got other worries with that machine anyway. True enough. >You can get a shell with root privileges from sysinstall and make your link. Got onto root with su, instead of su - which as you already know was failing on me. >Move /sbin back, though. This was a bad thing to relocate. Done. Now I have # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 128990 54998 63674 46% / /dev/ad0s1f 257998 81790 155570 34% /tmp /dev/ad1s1e 2030062 936170 931488 50% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 257998 2122 235238 1% /var which should be fine for my present needs. Funny thing was that the Perl package I wanted to install with cpan - MIME::Lite is a standalone that doesn't apparently require cpan to install if you have the source, which I do. Darned thing didn't work out for me anyway so it's plan B. Been a plan b kinda day. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search & Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal