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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!nhatrang!kbta From: kbta@nhatrang (Khanh-Binh Ta) Subject: Re: [Q] How to edit file /etc/rc.local Message-ID: <CGwJJ9.BDq@oakhill.sps.mot.com> Sender: news@oakhill.sps.mot.com Nntp-Posting-Host: nhatrang Organization: Motorola SPS, Austin, Texas X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 16:37:57 GMT Lines: 16 Thanks Mark Tinguely and Charles Hannum for your helps and sorry about the delay in acknowledgement, I've been without News until today. I've tried both way, boot as single user and Cntl-C after fsck. I could get into Unix but when trying to edit file rc.local, an error message came back saying "cannot create var/tmp/filename". A "mount" command showed that the filesystem that I mounted was read only. ( I did a "mount -u /dev/wd0a /usr" earlier) So I tried to make it writable by using "w" option unsuccessfully. Bottom line is I'm still open to the Net's wisdom of how to edit this file. Many thanks, kb