Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:24:28 -0700 From: "Tom Vollmer" <vollmert@mindspring.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Problem Message-ID: <000801bfa40d$168f3f80$0b0000c0@mindspring.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFA3D2.68CD2E00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I made an error in the /etc/rc.conf file. I quote character was not = inserted after the hostname parameter. Now, the machine stops when = parsing the file and I can only get to a '#' prompt. I can't get = prompted for login and I do not have enough rights to fix the file. Can = I get procedure to get enough rights to put the quote character in? = Hopefully, I won't have to reinstall the OS. Thanks, Tom Vollmer ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFA3D2.68CD2E00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2722.2800" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I made an error in the /etc/rc.conf = file. I=20 quote character was not inserted after the hostname parameter. = Now, the=20 machine stops when parsing the file and I can only get to a '#' = prompt. I=20 can't get prompted for login and I do not have enough rights to fix the=20 file. Can I get procedure to get enough rights to put the quote = character=20 in? Hopefully, I won't have to reinstall the OS. =20 Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Tom Vollmer</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFA3D2.68CD2E00-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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