From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 09:59:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16364 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 09:59:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.globalserve.net (smtp1.globalserve.net [209.90.144.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16355 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:59:12 GMT (envelope-from emk@depeche-mode.com) Received: from depeche-mode.com (dialin47.montreal.globalserve.net [209.167.12.47]) by smtp1.globalserve.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22967 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:00:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from emk@depeche-mode.com) Message-ID: <353A2E88.4A605EB@depeche-mode.com> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:04:08 -0400 From: emk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd Subject: can't log in as root -- please help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello everyone.. call it beginner's bad luck but i made a booboo last night. i changed the default shell for root to tcsh instead of csh. i *thought* i had tcsh installed on my machine but unfortunately.. it is not. so now when i try to log in as root, it says: "/bin/tcsh does not exist" hence i can't login. after that message, i'm faced with the login prompt again. i tried using one of my other accounts and changing it to superuser but i get the same error and can't change to superuser. do i need to re-install freebsd? my version is freebsd 2.2.5 thanks Metin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message