I prefer booting with a lilo option like init=/bin/sh, remounting the root partition read-write and edit again...
Or perhaps you got sudo installed and configed?? That'll be the easiest ... Ron Rademaker On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > > > Help!!! > > > > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. > > > > Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used > > emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is > > /bin/tcsh > > > > Then, I found that tcsh isn't in the /bin directory! And I've logged out > ... > > This is normally the kind of problem maintenance partitions are meant for! > (Great for troubles with your base system, and also for fiddling > with the main root partition. Hope you have some disk space available. > You can trash your swap partition if needed.) > > A maintenance partition is an extra linux installation on the same system, > bootable via floppy or lilo. Contains a usable system plus basic utilities > like mount and a small editor in your case, but also disk (repair) tools, > , maybe some kernel compiler necessities, lilo, chroot et cetera. > 100 Mb should suffice. > > Get my idea? > Should be on any system. Or at least, should be *installable* on any > system. > > I *will* fix my mailer someday. > Harald > > Philosophy, law, medicine and even theology, alas! I studied everything with > an ardent will and here I am, poor fool, just as far behind as ever. > No more advanced than before. > Goethe - Faust > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
