Date:        Tue, 16 Oct 2001 03:43:46 EDT
    From:        Asrivastava7@aol.com
    Message-ID:  <f6.10ca5448.28fd3f32@aol.com>

  | If ctrl-c the loop it goes in a 
  | single-user mode and i can't modify anything in /etc directory.

Get into single user mode (that way is a little unclean, but does have
the advantage that fsck will already have been run if needed)

	mount -u -o rw /
	mv /etc/rc.d/inetd /etc/BAD_INETD
	reboot

and you'll be back in multi-user mode (without inetd running, but that's
OK).   Fix whatever needs fixing, put (the fixed) BAD_INETD file back in
/etc/rc.d/inetd and run
	/etc/rc.d/inetd start
(as root of course).

The relevant step is the mount, to make root read-write.   After that
there are lots of ways to fix things, this is just one (one which avoids
needing to mount /usr in single user mode to get all the normal tools).

kre