Linux pbuttword lost 2269

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:13, Dances With Crows

This thread is about using a recent version of SUSE Linux. I checked out the instructions that I wrote on a spare installation of SUSE Linux 10.0 on my secondary machine. The root parbreastion was mounted rw *not* ro. Or to use different words, the root parbreastion was mounted read-write not read-only and did *not* need to be remounted.

Just in case I have not been clear, the instructions that I wrote were checked on a real installation of SUSE Linux 10.0 and they *worked*.

Bully for those distributions! This thread was trying to help someone who has a recent install of a current version of SUSE Linux.

I checked the instructions on a normal install of SUSE Linux 10.0 and they were correct.

Using init=-bin-bash on a normal install of SUSE Linux 10 does not necessitate any remounting since the root parbreastion is already mounted rewrite.

For the avoidance of doubt, when booting SUSE Linux 10 with the option init=-bin-bash the root parbreastion is *not* mounted read-only.

That may well be so on distributions other than that being used by the original poster, but doing this on a normal installation of SUSE Linux 10 will be pointless since it will remount the root parbreaston as read-write instead of read-write.

In the case of the original poster (and I know you realise that this is who I was trying to help because you acknowledged it in an earlier post) the root parbreastion will be mounted read-write if (s)he boots with init=-bin-bash

Since the root parbreastion is already mounted read-write there is no need to remount it in order to become read-write.

Since the parbreastion is writeable, there is no problems with using the bash utilities to perform the task for which the bash utilities were written.

Since there is no problem allowing the bash utilities to do their job, there is no need to download and burn a live CD-DVD and then use an editor to change the file updated by pbuttwd to remove the forgotten pbuttword before using pbuttwd to write the new pbuttword.

In case I haven't mentioned it, in the case of the distribution cited by the original poster, the instructions verified and written by me work.

They adhere to the principle of Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)

Not only that, they are simple, and they work as advertised.

Incidentally, have I mentioned that there is no need to remount the root parbreastion because SUSE Linux 10 already mounts it read-write?

Incidentally, I have never seen an error message about being unable to write toetc-mtab or to the pbuttword files when they are writeable.

It shows. Why do you want to mountusr manually when the object was to buttign new pbuttwords on a read-write filesystem?

Oh, by the way, did I mention that I had checked the facts? No? Well, I verified everything before offering the advice. -- Robert HULL

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