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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 20:01:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Tony D'Andrade" <blue@visinet.ca>
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Subject: Re: Problems
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On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Tony D'Andrade wrote:

> Hi.  Could anyone tell me what could possible cause a server to not allow
> logins from the console or anywhere else for that matter ?  I am running
> FreeBSD 2.2.2 and i have it set up as follows:
> 
> Server
> ====== 
> Pentium 166 w/64 RAM
> Western Digital 2 GB SCSI UW
> Adaptec 2940 UW
> ATI 2MB Video
> Asus MB 
> 3Com Etherlink III Network Card
> 
> Software
> ========
> 
> Web Server - Apache 1.2.4
> Samba 1.9.17p2
> NIS client
> DNS
> NFS client
> SCO emulation enabled

Ok, ok, ok.

> This server works fine for a few days then all of a sudden i cant log in
> and none of my users can log in.  I cant even log in at the console.  When
> the server boots it seems to stall on sendmail and httpd.
> 
> The only way i can log in is when i boot up in single user mode.  Then i
> run fsck and reboot. It still stalls on me.  I can find anything in the
> log files to indicate what might be happening.  Anyone have suggestions ?
> I am really thinking of switching to Redhat because of this.

Can you be more specific?  What happens when you can't log in?  Are there
any console messages or errors ouput when you try to login?  Was anything
logged to the system log /var/log/messages?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major