From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 0:27:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E964A37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E755943E6E for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a048.otenet.gr [212.205.215.48]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9M7RpfN010188; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:27:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9M7SD48017485; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:28:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9M7SD2C017484; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:28:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:28:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Steve Warwick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oops! rc.conf mistake Message-ID: <20021022072812.GG12190@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 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 On 2002-10-22 00:21, Steve Warwick wrote: > > I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get out of this stupid mistake. > > I edited rc.conf to add a virtual interface and left a quote off the end > (unterminated string) - now I cannot get past mounting root, so no editors. Please read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RCCONF-READONLY If you still can't get past your problem, it is a problem of the documentation and I would be grateful if you kept notes during the recovery process and emailed your comments back to me or the freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list. -- keramida@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #14: Mon Oct 21 06:51:14 EEST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message