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Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 02:02:37 -0400
From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>
To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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Subject: Re: *strange*
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You may have a user process hanging up the system. Try pressing Control-c after
the hang. I have noticed that sendmail would periodically do this if my machine
was disconnected from the network, the way I had it set up previously.

--cokane

Gary Kline had the audacity to say:
> On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 07:10:37PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 
> >    This is the most bizarre thing I've seen in the 5 years of FBSD.
> > 
> >    Nutshell, I messed up the installation of 4.0 and reinstalled by
> >    Upgrade from my 3.2 CD.
> > 
> >    The machine boots to the date stage and hangs. I can, however,
> >    telnet in from this platform into root (!flame, please).  As 
> >    root from this xterm, I'm about to re-CVSup everything. 
> > 
> >    Any idea what could be hanging the console and preventing it 
> >    from giving me a login prompt??
> > 
> 
> 	PS to the above:  I hacked  /etc/ttys to let me login
> 	as root by telnet; I may have hacked the file too much
> 	and made getty unhappy.   Guess.  I'm not going to
> 	upset cvsup right now, tho.
> 
> 	-g
> 
> 
> -- 
>    Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service Unix
> 
> 
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-- 
Coleman Kane
President, 
UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu


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