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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/43865: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly
Message-ID:  <200210091920.g99JK3vg077969@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/43865; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: Walter Kenaston <walterk1@earthlink.net>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/43865: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:21:13 +0300

 On 2002-10-09 07:58, Walter Kenaston <walterk1@earthlink.net> wrote:
 > An error in hand-editting /etc/rc.conf - a missing quote character,
 > in this case - caused the OS to be in an unuseable state after
 > reboot.  (The most this ought to cause is an erorr message and an
 > unprocessed configuration keyword.)
 
 Any ideas how this can be done?  This isn't a bug report, but a
 description of something that is already known and documented.  In
 fact, the documentation includes workarounds for the cases when the
 administrator has caused something like this to happen by being
 careless enough.

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