From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 12:16:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05559 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:16:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.new-mediacom.co.uk (ns.new-mediacom.co.uk [193.192.221.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05551 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:16:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@targeting.co.uk) Received: by ns.new-mediacom.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1459.74) id ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:10:09 -0000 Message-ID: <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A0D3AA5@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk> From: Alex Knowles To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: I can't believe I am soo stupid Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:10:07 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1459.74) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you so much to everyone that has helped me sort this out, You have all been very helpful indeed, and it has taught me an awful lot about recovering my system! Thanks again alex p.s. for the record here is the way I did it: boot in single user mode (-s at boot: prompt) mount -a chsh easy when you know how! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message