From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 20:55:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2847137B402 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA27268; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:55:11 -0800 Message-ID: <3C4CF0AE.5040102@owt.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:55:10 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chad Albert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syntax error in rc.conf References: <00b701c1a2fe$ddaadd80$14010f0a@spgcalbert> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chad Albert wrote: > I added a line to my rc.conf and like the idiot I am, I missed a quote. > Now when I boot I get an error about an unterminated quoted string and > the filesystem mounts read-only. How can I get my file to an editable > state? You can normally "mount -a", edit the file, and exit or reboot. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message