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Re: [LI] login prob.



> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:46:54 +0530 (IST)
> From: Vinod P N <vinod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [LI] login prob.
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> 	Hi,
> 	    I am not able to login at all. When i try to login
> 	it  spawns another login prompt, without giving the 
> 	password prompt. 
> 	But I can login in single user mode, and i did try to 
> 	find out what could be wrong.
> 	"syslogd exiting on signal 15" is one of the message in

As far as I think syslogd has got nothing to do with login, I stongly feel that 
login command is corrupt. Try this, just get into single user mode and run 
login, then you would get login prompt, then try login and see what happens.

Thanks
Chetan S


> /var/log/messages.
> 	I have RH 5.1 running on it(pentium I).
> 	What could have caused it, and how to rectify this?
> 
> 	TIA,
> 	Vinod
>  
> 
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