a followup:
finally got the filesystem mounted - not a SCSI controller problem at all,
just ignorance as to which partition I needed ('mount sda2 /mnt' did the
trick). I removed the offending line from /etc/inittab, and things are back
to normal.
Now that the recovery issues are behind me, I need to examine 1) why the
/etc/inittab entry was so disastrous and 2) how to do it right this time.
a little history:
after futzing around with wu-ftpd and running into the same problem
everyone else seems to be having with setting up restricted users (chroot
bolluxes up ls), I decided to try NcFTPd. nicely done FTP server, handles
restricted users straightforwardly, well worth the $39. After much testing
and customizing, I decided it was time to stop running it from a shell, and
insert it into the boot sequence. So I followed the instructions is Step 7
of the NcFTPd Installation Instructions. I put the following line at the
end of my /etc/inittab:
nc:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/ncftpd -q /usr/local/etc/ncftpd/general.cf
/usr/local/etc/ncftpd/domain.cf
upon restart, init complained of a segmentation fault and the boot process
halted.
so what's wrong with the above /etc/inittab entry? the huge line length?
the space characters? the pathnames?
-- Rich Martin --= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =--
Data Wrangler, Planet Interactive
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