Here's an odd question...
Where is it looking from?  Obviously, it doesn't look from root...  Does
it look from the current directory, or /root, or ~/, or does it refuse to
look at all if there's no leading slash?
If it actually looks in some (nonexistent) directory, maybe you could
create a link from that directory to a real shell?

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Tim McNamara wrote:

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> On Feb 3, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Tom Jernigan wrote:
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> > You can try su -m, which uses the shell you're in. I assume it'll work
> > even if the root shell is screwed up.
>
> No such luck, but thanks for the suggestion.  su -m, su -c, etc. all
> complain that there is no such file as "usr/pkg/bin/bash" which, of
> course, I already know.  toor is nonfunctional, apparently by default,
> so that option is not available.
>
> This is becoming vexatious.  If "sudo" was present by default, the
> problem would be readily solvable.  I think I saw that on the ftp
> server, so I'll have to get that installed.
>
> I think that this point I'm going to have to kill in the hard way, boot
> into single user mode and fix it from there.  I hope I can boot into
> single user mode, that is.
>
>