rc.conf ...need help

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Feb 6 22:10:35 UTC 2007


"Don Munyak" <don.munyak at gmail.com> writes:

> I was tweaking the /etc/rc.conf file and apparently had a typo. Now
> the system boots into single user mode. I know what my error is
>
> syslogd_enable=YES"  {left off the first "}
>
> How can I edit rc.conf while in single user mode. I've tried vi & ee,
> but system doesn't recognize either.

"I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I
cannot edit it because the filesystem is read-only. What should I do?" 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RCCONF-READONLY


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