On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, John Albers Mead wrote:

> Late last night, I got NetBSD installed on a IIci.  In my enthusiasm, I
> began installing apps (apache, perl, etc...) and tcsh.  I tried to change
> the root shell to tcsh before I realized that I should probably set up

	Um, *never* *ever* set root's shell to anything but /bin/sh.
For one, most shells don't get linked statically to whatever shared libraries
they use.  Two: sh is a tried and true shell, and is generally more stable and
reliable than any other shell.  If you want to use tcsh then when you su to 
root, do `exec /usr/local/bin/tcsh'.

> passwords and a non-root account for myself (it was late as I said).  Guess
> what?  tcsh didn't install properly and now when I try to login as root is
> says the application tcsh doesn't exist and takes me back to the login
> prompt.
> 
> I have tried booting into single user mode but the system comes up in read
> only and I can't vipw or cp the password file.  I also tried doing cpout

	Did you try booting to single user, fsck'ing, and `mount -av' ?

> from the mini-shell on the installer but the passwd file comes out and
> SimpleText won't open so I can manually change the shell back to something
> that works.
> 
> Any ideas would REALLY be appreciated.  I will also be accepting public
> humilitation (time and place to be announced).
> 
> - JAM
> 
>    			                    John Albers-Mead
> 			                     MatchLogic, Inc
>                                         400 S. McCaslin Blvd
>                                        Louisville, CO  80027
>                                             303.665.4007x161
> 
> 
> 



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