On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:45:17PM -0600, Tim McNamara wrote:
> 
> On Feb 3, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Tom Jernigan wrote:
> 
> >You can try su -m, which uses the shell you're in. I assume it'll work 
> >even if the root shell is screwed up.
> 
> No such luck, but thanks for the suggestion.  su -m, su -c, etc. all 
> complain that there is no such file as "usr/pkg/bin/bash" which, of 
> course, I already know.  toor is nonfunctional, apparently by default, 
> so that option is not available.
> 
> This is becoming vexatious.  If "sudo" was present by default, the 
> problem would be readily solvable.  I think I saw that on the ftp 
> server, so I'll have to get that installed.
> 
> I think that this point I'm going to have to kill in the hard way, boot 
> into single user mode and fix it from there.  I hope I can boot into 
> single user mode, that is.
> 

you can try "su root /bin/ksh". maybe it will work