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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: Re: help: single user, windows, setdate
Message-ID: <304@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 03:44:20 GMT
References: <10547@stb.UUCP>
Reply-To: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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In article <10547@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
>I'm having a few minor problems. I tried to get the equivalent of a single
>user mode by putting a "/bin/sh" in /etc/rc right after the 
>exec /bin/sh /etc/rc WINDOWED line (more accurately, right after the fi)
>so that the first thing this new shell would do is execute an interactive
>shell before bringing anything up.

This may not be the right answer -- I'm just taking a stab in the dark.  Did
you try putting in explicit I/O redirection?  It's quite common for /etc/rc
commands to need explicit redirection for all of file descriptors 0, 1 and 2.

Try:

/bin/sh < /dev/window > /dev/w1 2>&1
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