Stephane Gassies wrote:
> Michael W. Ryder a écrit:
>
>>I am trying to do some maintenance on an old RS/6000 model 370. I enter
>> 'getrootfs hdisk0' and it seems to mount but mentions that a bunch of
>>stuff has been killed. I then get the prompt. I can cd to a directory
>>but can not ls the directory, cat a file, or edit a file. What am I
>>missing?
>
>
> Are you sure that /usr is mounted ? If I remember well, you are
> pretty sure that / is mounted, but for the rest you need to be sure
> that the system is in a correct state. If it is not (mount will tell
> it to you), then call fsck on the improper fileystems.
>
> 2nd obs: check the PATH variable. The commands may be accessible
> through direct path.
>

For some reason using the limited shell makes everything unavailable
even using the full path to the command. I finally found another shell
that allowed me to do what I wanted. In the end that didn't work either
so I completely reinstalled the OS, needed to be done anyway.



> Yours,
> Stephane GASSIES