From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 12:22:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E446537BFE5 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 12:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.144]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 May 2000 12:26:46 -0700 Message-ID: <39186537.164D4943@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 12:21:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: todd ritzka Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help References: <20000509181916.4899.qmail@web1404.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG todd ritzka wrote: > > hello, > recently i was editiong my rc.conf file and i think that i made a > mistakesome where. now when i logon i get this error that looks > somewhat like this: > > /bin/rc.conf "some error, i forget":14 > enter the startup shell or press return to run /bin/sh > # > > at the prompt i typed a number of things and nothing worked. what can > i do to be able to get to logon and how do i fix my error > > (my usual shell is tcsh, and im new at this so please make it > simple:) Well, tcsh probably won't work at this point and your only choice is /bin/sh. Nothing else is mounted. The SA response is usually "We can't help unless you tell us what the message is". The number of choices is really pretty large. I have made the error of having unbalanced '"' and the system complains pretty well and leaves you at the setup mode. It seems like a couple of weeks ago I did the following. 1 choose /bin/sh because I don't think you have a choice at this point. 2 "mount -a" This is to load /usr, which is a different file system on my machine. The only editor in /bin is ed and if you can't mount /usr, you will learn ed. 3 cd /etc 4 vi rc.conf and get rid of the error. 5 reboot and see if you fixed the error. If nothing works, you can probably get away with doing "mv rc.conf rc.conf.old" and reboot. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message