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Subject: submission of new FAQ text on fixing broken startup files
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>Number:         22694
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       submission of new FAQ text on fixing broken startup files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 08 08:00:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Wed Nov 15 14:27:13 GMT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Wed Nov 15 06:40:01 PST 2000
>Originator:     Lowell Gilbert
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-BETA i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:

current FAQ

>Description:

For people who *read* the FAQ, this is trivial.  
However, people who *search* the FAQ will probably find it helpful.

>How-To-Repeat:

This gets asked regularly these days.

>Fix:

*** doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml~	Wed Nov  8 09:06:52 2000
--- doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml	Wed Nov  8 10:15:13 2000
***************
*** 6077,6082 ****
--- 6077,6096 ----
        </qandaentry>
  
        <qandaentry>
+         <question id="mangled-startup-files">
+           <para>I made a mistake in my startup files, and now the box
+ 	    won't boot: how do I fix my mistake?</para>
+         </question><answer>
+ 
+           <para>See the
+ 	    <link linkend="forgot-root-pw">previous question</link>,
+ 	    except edit the startup file in question instead of doing
+ 	    <command>passwd root</command>.</para>
+ 
+         </answer>
+       </qandaentry>
+ 
+       <qandaentry>
          <question id="CAD-reboot">
            <para>How do I keep Control-Alt-Delete from rebooting the
              system?</para>



>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: lowell@world.std.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/22694: submission of new FAQ text on fixing broken startup files
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:31:17 +0000

 lowell@world.std.com wrote:
 
 > +         <question id="mangled-startup-files">
 > +           <para>I made a mistake in my startup files, and now the box
 > + 	    won't boot: how do I fix my mistake?</para>
 > +         </question><answer>
 > + 
 > +           <para>See the
 > + 	    <link linkend="forgot-root-pw">previous question</link>,
 > + 	    except edit the startup file in question instead of doing
 > + 	    <command>passwd root</command>.</para>
 > + 
 > +         </answer>
 
 Isn't the "I made a mistake in rc.conf, and now I can't edit it because
 the filesystem is read-only. What should I do?" question good enough?
 
 -- 
 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
 

From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/22694: submission of new FAQ text on fixing broken startup files
Date: 12 Nov 2000 19:06:49 -0500

 Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> writes:
 
 > lowell@world.std.com wrote:
 > 
 > > +         <question id="mangled-startup-files">
 > > +           <para>I made a mistake in my startup files, and now the box
 > > + 	    won't boot: how do I fix my mistake?</para>
 > > +         </question><answer>
 > > + 
 > > +           <para>See the
 > > + 	    <link linkend="forgot-root-pw">previous question</link>,
 > > + 	    except edit the startup file in question instead of doing
 > > + 	    <command>passwd root</command>.</para>
 > > + 
 > > +         </answer>
 > 
 > Isn't the "I made a mistake in rc.conf, and now I can't edit it because
 > the filesystem is read-only. What should I do?" question good enough?
 
 One would think.
 
 [Two possible translations: either I'm annoyed that so many people
 manage to miss that question, or I had missed it myself.  Note that
 those are *not* mutually exclusive.]
 
 Please go ahead and close the PR, although adding "or other startup
 files" to the question in, um, question, might be a good idea.
 
  - Lowell
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ben 
State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 15 14:27:13 GMT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Suggested text added to existing question. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22694 

From: Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/22694: submission of new FAQ text on fixing broken startup files
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:29:08 +0000

 Lowell Gilbert wrote:
 
 > [Two possible translations: either I'm annoyed that so many people
 > manage to miss that question, or I had missed it myself.  Note that
 > those are *not* mutually exclusive.]
 > 
 > Please go ahead and close the PR, although adding "or other startup
 > files" to the question in, um, question, might be a good idea.
 
 Done.
 
 -- 
 Ben Smithurst / csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk / ben@FreeBSD.org
 
>Unformatted:
