Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:42:00 -0500 From: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: clearing space Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050107123523.01f4f298@mail.face2interface.com> In-Reply-To: <1105118459.708.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050106184116.01f2aa80@mail.face2interface.com> <20050107053638.GE27020@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107074632.03093500@mail.face2interface.com> <1105103142.708.136.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <bc5b6385050107055571c9dd2b@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107091811.01f21c78@mail.face2interface.com> <1105108254.708.141.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107094403.030a3d38@mail.face2interface.com> <1105110920.708.152.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107102842.01f00398@mail.face2interface.com> <1105115565.708.165.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050107115026.03103bd0@mail.face2interface.com> <1105118459.708.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com>
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At 12:20 PM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > > > > >No - you ought to be able to su to root still. Live and learn. That worked, guess I can read up on su myself to understand the difference. >One thing that does occur to me: what is your user's shell and, if it >isn't bash, do you have bash installed? And have you changed the root >shell from csh? I suspect the latter. I'm not even aware of how to know the answers to these. > > >If you can boot onto a FreeBSD CDROM it'd be easy to fix this. No need now, is there? >The keyboard will almost certainly work after a reboot. That's good to know. >If not, you've got other worries with that machine anyway. True enough. >You can get a shell with root privileges from sysinstall and make your link. Got onto root with su, instead of su - which as you already know was failing on me. >Move /sbin back, though. This was a bad thing to relocate. Done. Now I have # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 128990 54998 63674 46% / /dev/ad0s1f 257998 81790 155570 34% /tmp /dev/ad1s1e 2030062 936170 931488 50% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 257998 2122 235238 1% /var which should be fine for my present needs. Funny thing was that the Perl package I wanted to install with cpan - MIME::Lite is a standalone that doesn't apparently require cpan to install if you have the source, which I do. Darned thing didn't work out for me anyway so it's plan B. Been a plan b kinda day. Marty Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Search & Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal
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