Re: No command line prompt for root

1998-10-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Any ideas as to what happened and what is the remedy will be very much > appreciated. This is a very common problem, and solution has been posted many times. Sysklogd -29 is broken. reboot in single user mode chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd reboot install a new sysklogd (-30) or the hamm versio

Re: No command line prompt for root

1998-10-21 Thread LUK ShunTim
Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: > Your version of sysklogd is? if it is 1.3-29 then you have the bugged up > version. [snipped] That indeed is the case. Thanks. May be that's where the fun is -- you never know what interesting things will come up. And you always got somebody willing to help.

Re: No command line prompt for root

1998-10-21 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
> Something strange happened to my Debian system. I can login as an > ordinary user and it works normally but when I login as root, it printed > out the motd on the screen and said that root has been logged in. A > 'who' from another user confirms it. It even told me "no mail for root" > but I don'

No command line prompt for root

1998-10-21 Thread LUK ShunTim
Hi, Something strange happened to my Debian system. I can login as an ordinary user and it works normally but when I login as root, it printed out the motd on the screen and said that root has been logged in. A 'who' from another user confirms it. It even told me "no mail for root" but I don't get