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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:47:27 -0500
From:      Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>
Cc:        Nelson Tsai <shiver@mailandnews.com>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <387A455F.404D8203@twave.net>
References:  <003e01bf5b9f$14b1fd80$05e42dd1@futuresouth.com> <20000111083658.A1196@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz>

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Jonathan Chen wrote:

> [What exactly is your question?]
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:15:28PM -0600, Nelson Tsai wrote:
>
> > hi,there:
> > thank you for all replies. I still can't solve the problem.
> > I logged in as a single user mode and also mounted
> > file systems needed with command "mount -w" .
> > ex: mount -w /dev/wd0s2f  /usr
>
> > I tried to use "vi", "chsh" and "vipw" to edit files but the
> > error message showed me that the file systems are
> > read-only.
>
> Looks like you didn't mount your / file-system read-write. Try:
>
>         mount -a
>
> instead of multiple mounts.
>
> Jonathan Chen
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Jonathan, I think he managed to trash his root login.......

Walter



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