SOLVED! Re: SOS! my LInux box is self destructing! (long)

[Brian Witowski]

Glad to hear you got it.  Its a scary deal, to say the least.  One lesson
I have learned when working with linux is that when things wig out, look at
what's NOT running as much as what is.  This is generally ass-backwards
from the Windows mentality.  On more than one occassion I've fought with my
system trying to figure out which module or daemon was causing problems
when in reality my problems were caused by scripts either not being
executable
or not having the proper ownership bits set.

BTW, I would like to run an X session on my Windows box.  What does it
entail?


Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-admin at linux-sxs.org
> [mailto:linux-users-admin at linux-sxs.org]On Behalf Of Net Llama
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 6:40 PM
> To: users at lists.caldera.com
> Cc: SxS
> Subject: SOLVED! Re: SOS! my LInux box is self destructing! (long)
>
>
> OK, chalk this one up to being an idiot...yet again.  Seems that when i
> was tinkering with /etc/inittab i put some innocent little hash marks in
> front of the lines that specified what runlevels 4, 5 & 6 were.  So,
> that's why Linux never ran any of the init scripts for those runlevels,
> which caused all of the crazy weirdness.   Hash marks removed, and life
> is good again.  Now, to wipe some of this egg off my face.
>
> --- Michael Scottaline <nbhs2 at i-2000.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 12:50:39 -0800 (PST)
> > Net Llama <beemer9 at yahoo.com> scribbled in frustration:
> >
> > >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.
> > ========================================
> > Any chance you were rootkit'd last night while setting that up??  If
> > you
> > were connected for a while, even via 56K, I suppose it would have been
> > possilbe, no?? Mike
>
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