From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 8 14:45: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC32037B40A for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA46779; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:33:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Dennis White Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting problem after changing shell In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You changed root's shell? At the single user prompt for a shell type csh. Annelise On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Dennis White wrote: > ran chsh to use bash instead of csh. didn't know > there were some other files i needed to change > too. now, when i try to boot, i can't login in > single user mode, since the system can't find > the right sh to run. how can i get in to add the > shell to rc.local or whatever file it is that > needs to be changed? do i need to d/l the fixit > floppy? thanks for any help on this i can get. > i'm not a complete newbie, but definitely a real > dunderhead to have waited til i came offshore for > a week to mess around with system settings. > denny white > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message