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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!mccuts!zlsiial
- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Newbie Linuxer & misc. Qs (LONG!)
- Message-ID: <5446@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 06:20:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.220519.18078@sura.net>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
- Lines: 23
-
- In article <1992Jul26.220519.18078@sura.net> vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
- >2. Can only log-in as "root". This is a big problem. I have tried
- ....
- > username (vargish) and Linux spits out the text in the file
- > "/etc/nologin".
-
- The file /etc/rc should contain the command 'rm -f /etc/nologin'.
- This file, which is created by the reboot command, prevents non-root
- users from logging in unless it is deleted.
-
- >4. Mtools sometimes can't initialize my floppies, and sometimes can't
- > even see them (depending on what random numbers I'm using in
- > /etc/mtools).
-
- You should have
-
- A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0
- B /dev/fd1 12 0 0 0
-
- for the floppy entries in /etc/mtools.
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-