January 09, 2004
OpenBSD Trouble
Last week I had a slight problem with my OpenBSD box, in that Apache was constantly crashing and bringing the system down. I know this is an extremely rare occurance. Anyway, the problem was that Apache automatically started on boot, and there's no way I knew how to go through the boot process interactively (ANY SUGGESTIONS?)
Anyway, here's my work around, which is based on what happens when you forget the root password:
(1) At the
boot >>prompt enter:
boot >> boot -s
(2) At the
localhost >>prompt enter:
localhost >> fsck -p /usr && mount /usr
localhost >> fsck -p / && mount -uw /
localhost >> tcsh
localhost >> setenv TERM xterm
(3) You should now have access to vi and at least /, /usr and probably /etc too if it's on the root partition. Posted by Derek at January 9, 2004 10:10 PM
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