From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 17:36:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD3337BAF5 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vollmert@mindspring.com) Received: from client (user-33qtnc1.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.221.129]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA08571 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:36:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000801bfa40d$168f3f80$0b0000c0@mindspring.com> From: "Tom Vollmer" To: Subject: Problem Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:24:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFA3D2.68CD2E00" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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

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,

Tom Vollmer

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