bash or any other $favourite?

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 09:17:33AM +0100, Luis Motta Campos
wrote:

>  Please leave your irony apart and teach me one thing:
what are my
>alternatives to fix a broken system with a shell linked
to ncurses or
>other "vitally important and stable"
library? It just happen I need to
>get my install disks again and start over, or there is
any other thing I
>can do without being able to log in due to a broken
default shell?

Depending on your OS, you may be able to run a version of it
from fixed
media such as a CD, mount the filesystems, and correct
things from
there. But you need physical access to do this.

R

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 09:27:33AM +0100, Roger Burton West
wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 09:17:33AM +0100, Luis Motta
Campos wrote:
> >  Please leave your irony apart and teach me one
thing: what are my
> >alternatives to fix a broken system with a shell
linked to ncurses or
> >other "vitally important and stable"
library? It just happen I need to
> >get my install disks again and start over, or there
is any other thing I
> >can do without being able to log in due to a broken
default shell?
> Depending on your OS, you may be able to run a version
of it from fixed
> media such as a CD, mount the filesystems, and correct
things from
> there. But you need physical access to do this.

Or network booting and a proper remote console.

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  Whose router used proprietary cables.
    When he got pissed on meths,
    He thought "screw IOS",
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