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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: problem logging in after a make world
To: chabot@astron.berkeley.edu (Chabot Observatory & Science Center)
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:40:36 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950916111939.9289B-100000@astron> from "Chabot Observatory & Science Center" at Sep 16, 95 11:56:00 am
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Chabot Observatory & Science Center writes:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> 	I am experiencing a problem after doing a sup last night 
> (9/16/95) at 02:08 PDT -800 and doing a make world.  For some reason, I 
> can't login or ftp to the machine remotely since I don't have access 
> there over the weekends, any idea what's happening?  Here is the output I 
> get:
>
[...]

I had a problem recently where /dev/tty was missing.  As I recall,
login would loop when asking for the password since it failed to
connect to the terminal via /dev/tty.  I don't remember exactly.

This doesn't appear to be your problem but thought I would mention
it.

John Capo
IRBS Engineering