boot failure

[Olaf Olson]

Here's a nickel's worth. According to the man page for less:

DESCRIPTION
       Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows backward  
move-
       ment in the file as well as forward movement.

So, after all this time, not quite fully reading your e-mails, your 
problem editing /etc/inittab seems to be that you are using a viewer 
(less), when you should be using an editor (vi or pico), as Jeff states 
below. Both are a bit arcane, being UNIX based text edtors, but man 
pages are available for each of those, too.

If you haven't got those available, let us know and someone can send you 
the text from their own man pages, to explain the use of vi or pico.

Olaf

Jeff Folk wrote:

> Yes, you should use vi or pico as root to edit the file.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Apr 27, 2004, at 7:39 PM, Thomas Sorensen wrote:
>
>> OK I believe what you are saying and he admits he has no experience 
>> with a
>> Mac or YDL and is just trying to help. My question to you is why 
>> won't the
>> etc/inittab allow me to edit it, do I need to open it in another 
>> program to
>> make the change to level 3, when I use less /etc/inittab it seem to 
>> be more
>> of a read only program. One other observation if I type single in the 
>> kernel
>> exceptions I get to a command line promp of sh-2.05b# and it won't go 
>> any
>> further. I'm sorry to have offended anyone by my lack of Linux 
>> knowledge and
>> have posted also on the newbie list but got no responses, I thought 
>> the idea
>> of the mailing list was to help other people out and try to expand Linux
>> usage. Thanks
>
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