From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 12:46: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB62D152EC for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:46:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.60] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ea754654 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:44:59 -0500 Message-ID: <387A455F.404D8203@twave.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:47:27 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Nelson Tsai , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: your mail References: <003e01bf5b9f$14b1fd80$05e42dd1@futuresouth.com> <20000111083658.A1196@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Contrary to popular belief, > penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. > Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Jonathan, I think he managed to trash his root login....... Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message