SOS! my LInux box is self destructing! (long)

[Net Llama]

Unfortunately, my box is _heavily_ altered from the standard COL, so the
upgrade would prolly break alot more than it would fix.

I have discovered something new while working on this. I think 98% of
the problem is that none of the runlevel based scripts are running.  I'm
referring to the stuff in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d.  I discovered this, when it
boots into what should be runlevel 5, yet syslog, and everything else
that is in the rc5.d directory was not running.  So, I went and manually
started each of the S* scripts.  IN so doing, i noticed that there is an
"rmnologin" script, that is supposed to delete the /etc/nologin file.
Funny the things i never notice until all hell breaks lose.

At this point, perhaps the overlying problem is simply that whatever
should be running all the runlevel scripts, isn't doing it.  So, does
anyone know what that is?  Perhaps i inadertantly killed the executable
bit on whatever it is that runs those scripts?

--- Ronnie Gauthier <gauthier at uplogon.com> wrote:
> I had the same self induced behavior on my mandrake box a while back.
> I took 
> the chicken shit way out and used the install disk and chose the
> upgrade 
> option. All fixed. Might work for you.
> 
> On Saturday 09 March 2002 20:50, Net Llama wrote:
> > I've gotten myself into one hell of a mess, and i'm dumbfounded on
> how
> > to fix it.
> > Last night, I configured my COL-3.1.1 box to provide remote X logins
> > using kdm, as per these instructions:
> > http://sxs.sourceforge.net/sxs/remotexkdm.html
> >
> > Everything was working perfectly.
> >
> > So, i wake up this morning, and boot up this same box, to come upon
> >
> ==snip==

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Lonni J. Friedman                     netllama at linux-sxs.org

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