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Subject: Re: Vi a Joke ?
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:30:20 +0100
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> One point people forget and that is what can
> you use when you mess up rc.conf and your system
> will only boot into single user mode. Learning
> vi at that point is a painic :).

Can't you just restore the previous copy of the file and reboot?  You made a
backup copy of the last bootable version of the file before you changed it,
right?


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