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- From: ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu)
- Subject: cannot login at all!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.015410.15298@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:54:10 GMT
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- hi everyone...
-
- i deleted /etc/utmp in a virtual console and tried to login from another
- VC, but linux said "/etc/utmp: no such file or directory" and i was not
- allowed to login...
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- then i created /etc/utmp with a single carriage return in it and tried
- logging in aain. this time it said:
- must start from the lowest "sh"... something like that...
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- i thought a reboot would fix it but it didn't. the same message shows
- up when i want to login. so now i can't login.
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- can anyone give me a hand?
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- thanks in advance
-
- peter
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