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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    RE: Fell in a friggin' hole
From:       John Stockard <john.stockard () vertsys ! com>
Date:       2001-04-30 20:46:02
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FWIW, I've bit myself in the ass this same way.  You've since resolved the
problem (congrats!), but just for the mailing list's posterity here's how I
fixed the same problem on one of my firewalls:

Hitting Ctrl-C on the console when it gets to the point of trying to load
ipmon did the trick for me (the Ctrl-C keystroke tells ipmon to die, which
lets the rest of the /etc/rc* scripts do their thing and ends you up at the
normal login prompt).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Moore [mailto:jim.moore@firelinedsl.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 11:00 PM
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Fell in a friggin' hole
> 
> 
> I've managed to get my system in a state where it runs OK, but never 
> produces a login prompt. I was trying to lose the annoying ipmon 
> logging to the console, and removed the 's' flag in rc.conf. Now the 
> boot process seems to hang at the point where ipmon is started.
> 
> I've tried 'boot -s' at the boot> prompt, but I can't get anything to 
> edit the rc.conf file... ed & vi are not to be found.
> 
> How can I recover from this?
> 
> Thanks,
> James Moore

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