Re: stupidity and disaster

[Noel Yap <ivy1@cornell.edu>]

Jim,

I might be wrong, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that the shell
the system uses to boot up must be physically present in /bin and not
symlinked to somewhere else like /usr/local/bin.  The default setup is
to have /bin/sh symlinked to /bin/bash.  This is supposed to be a
security precaution to prevent some random luser from replacing the
default shell.  As others have suggested, you'll need to boot using your
rescue disk to get your system going again.

Noel


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