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Date:      Wed, 8 May 1996 11:03:14 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Update: HELP!
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.92.960508105006.25631G-100000@martin.luther.edu>

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Ok....here's what I know....the problem is still here, but we may be
targetting in on the actual problem now.

First, by "login problem" I mean this: you enter your username, you enter
your passwd, it says "Login incorrect". That's all.  If you use rlogin
from an account w/ same username as account on the FreeBSD machine, you
get all the way in, execept it dies with some sort of error (I didn't get
to see this first-hand...one of my assistants tried this) about failing to
execute the shell.  You also get a setlogin() error.

Ok....at boot-up time this error occurs:

NOQUEUE: SYSERR (root): getrequests: cannot bind: Permission denied
problem creating SMTP socket

This is all in reference to starting sendmail, which does not start.  You
can ftp into the machine (non-anon, we don't support anon).  You can login
from the x-console.  You cannot login from any other terms, including any
of the other 3 virtual consoles.

pstat -T says:
	100/552 files
	1050 vnodes
	4M/43M swap space

I have no clue what this means, but somebody asked.

At this point, I do not think it has anything to do with shared libraries,
the passwd/master.passwd file(s), or the databases.  However, something
does seem to be wrong with permissions in certain places, etc.  Someone
asked if getty was running -- the answer is "Yes and No."  getty is
running for two specific tty's, which weren't the tty's I was attached to
when I was logged-in and looking.  However, there is no other tty than
that.  A better explanation is this...I'll show you a ps -ax.  You will
note that most of the stuff is x-console related as that is the only place
to login from.  The three getty's running are for the virtual consoles,
yet you cannot login from them.  named does not seem to be running, but it
has not been running from the very beginning.

  PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
    0  ??  DLs    0:00.00  (swapper)
    1  ??  Ss     0:00.04 /sbin/init --
    2  ??  DL     0:00.38  (pagedaemon)
    3  ??  DL     0:00.46  (vmdaemon)
    4  ??  DL     0:00.15  (update)
   21  ??  IWs    0:00.01 adjkerntz -i
   47  ??  Ss     0:00.08 routed -q
   66  ??  Ss     0:00.26 syslogd
   72  ??  IWs    0:00.01 portmap
   83  ??  IWs    0:00.38 inetd
   90  ??  IWs    0:00.05 cron
   92  ??  IWs    0:00.04 lpd
  142  ??  IW     0:00.01 /usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /etc/httpd.conf
  147  ??  IW     0:00.17 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon ttyv4
  150  ??  S      0:09.06 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-00
  151  ??  IW     0:00.17 -:0                                TERM=xterm (xdm)
  157  ??  S      0:00.27 xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exi
  173  ??  S      0:00.57 xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -sb
  177  ??  S      0:01.00 fvwm -s
  187  ??  I      0:00.02 /bin/sh -c xclock -bg \\#908090 -geometry -1500-1500 -padding 0
  188  ??  S      0:00.18 xclock -bg #908090 -geometry -1500-1500 -padding 0
  193  ??  I      0:00.49 xterm -geometry +0+0
  199  ??  S      0:00.19 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/GoodStuff 8 5 /tmp/fvwmrc00177 0 8
  200  ??  S      0:00.01 /bin/sh -c xclock -bg \\#908090 -geometry -1500-1500 -padding 0
  201  ??  S      0:00.16 xclock -bg #908090 -geometry -1500-1500 -padding 0
  202  ??  S      0:00.16 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/FvwmPager 10 5 /tmp/fvwmrc00177 0 8 0 3
  204  ??  S      0:00.46 xterm -sb -ls -j -rv
  190  p1  Is+    0:00.16 -bash (bash)
  205  p2  Ss     0:00.13 -bash (bash)
  206  p2  R+     0:00.02 ps -ax
  194  p3  Is+    0:00.10 bash
  167  v0  IWs+   0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0
  145  v1  IWs+   0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
  146  v2  IWs+   0:00.03 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2

Some more errors to report are....when trying to do 'w' from any account
other than root I get: /dev/mem: Permission denied.  Ok.  So, I changed
the permission on that file and then it says /dev/kmem: Permission denied.
Any ideas on that?  Probably of lesser important.  But, then I ask myself,
what are the permissions on most files in that directory???  I dunno if
they are right.  Oh, btw, I have two files, /dev/rsd0.ctl and
/dev/rsd1.ctl.  Each one is supposedly 536MB in size, yes I only have a
800MB hard drive.  Hello?!?  What's up with that???

This is a summary of the many problems I am encountering.  Any suggestions
will be accepted gratefully.  I need to get this machine up and running in
a stable state as we hope to use it next Fall for many things, and we must
have a reliable machine for those functions.

Thanks for your help and patience!

-ben

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    Benjamin Tomhave		|   Shell to DOS...Come in DOS...Do you Copy?
    Luther College		|
    Decorah, IA 52101		|   $ rm * .*    "Hey, where'd everything go?
    tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu  |
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