[rescue] Silly NetBSD question

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:41:17AM -0500, Rebecca Ore wrote:
>
> > Edit /etc/group and add yourself to wheel.
>
> OK.  So I have:
> wheel:*:0:root, joshua
>
> Still no go.
> So, I tried:
> wheel:*:0:root;joshua
> and again no go.

No, like this:

wheel:*:0:root,joshua

> I think I might have telnet working (I tried to telnet into the machine, and
> it didn't refuse the connection, but a minute later I still have no login
> prompt.  But maybe it is just slow.  My old lintel 486 used to do the same
> thing.).

First guess would be a timeing-out DNS lookup.

> That should fix the useless man problem.

Or use something halfway decent to use as your serial console.

minicom sucks for serial consoles.  It's why God make C-Kermit :)

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Phil