Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!
On 8/30/05, dwilliams1066@netscape.net <dwilliams1066@netscape.net> wrote:
> Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On 8/30/05, David W. Williams <dwilliams@law.pace.edu> wrote:
> >> I should have mentioned, I'm the:
> >>
> >>
> >> Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy
> >>
> >> from debian-user
> >>
> >> I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message:
> >>
> >> E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override)
> >>
> >> Is it possible to get vi to override the read-only of the file system so
> >> that I can remove the two offending lines of code from bootmisc.sh?
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for any help you can give.
> >>
> >
> >Did you
> >mount -o remount,rw /
> >?
> >
> >PS, please keep the list CC'd, for people who have the same trouble in
> >the future
> >
> >
> Yes I did. That's what did the trick on the not being able to write to the file system!
>
> Can anyone suggest a tutorial on writing what I think are called init scripts?
>
> Thanks!
Take a look at the files in /etc/init.d, just use one of them as a
template, and symlink it in as /etc/rc<runlevel>.d/S99yourservice
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