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- From: briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Allen Briggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: inittab
- Message-ID: <Bu6syw.1AK@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 02:44:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.232937.7737@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- In article <1992Sep6.232937.7737@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dba3k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Daniel Burton Avery) writes:
- >When I rebooted, and got into the A/UX launcher I found my self
- >unable to edit the inittab b/c vi doesn't work. Aside from
- >possibly mounting my drive on another A/UX system (which isn't
- >a likly choice b/c I don't know of anyone around here who has
- >an A/UX system) what can I do?
-
- Well, I don't know what you changed in your inittab, but you s/b
- able to edit it with ed. If nothing else, you can always create
- the file line by line with cat > /etc/inittab.
-
- I seem to remember being able to use ed when my password file got
- toasted in a crash. BTW, there are a lot of A/UX systems here in
- B'burg (only a few hours away from Charlottesville ;-)...
-
- >Also, I'm going to purchase the 3.0 upgrade CD. Does the 3.0
- >CD have the entire system on it?
-
- I should think it would have everything you need. In fact, I'd be a
- little surprized if it were a different CD than the regular dist.
-
- -allen
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