From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 11:08:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA14459 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:08:08 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA14453 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:08:06 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA01509; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:06:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510031806.LAA01509@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: system crash - help! To: rdm@ic.net (Rob Misiak) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:06:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Rob Misiak" at Oct 3, 95 08:51:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 520 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Ok, in case anyone is interested, I fixed the problem. What happened is > fsck (I think that's what did this) marked some files - including /etc/ttys > (causing the login problem) and /etc/hosts - character devices. I luckily > had the 2.0.5-release CD lying around, so I replaced all of the messed up files What do you mean "marked"... you mean "moved to lost+found"? I hope? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.