[parisc-linux] Thanks...alot
tom@piace.com
tom@piace.com
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:52:31 -0600 (CST)
I don't know what I was thinking. I was so excited about getting into my
new toy I just wanted to get it working. It has been along time
since I used ed(like) editors. I hope to have some time to play with it
after all of the y2krap is over. I have lots of updated to load on
customers computers, so I don't get to play with mine.
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
>
> tom@piace.com writes:
> - I was able to boot into single user mode, and edit the password file. It
> - took a while to find a terminal program for my computer, that would let me
> - run vi correctly. Thanks for all your help.
>
> You realize you did more work than required, right??
> Since you were running as root at single user, you could have
> used the `passwd' command to change roots password.
>
> On the other hand, its always good to know enough of
> `ed(1)' to be able to fix things like this no matter what sort
> of terminal you have..
>
> --
> Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com
> If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
>
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