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At 09:29 1999-05-19 +0200, you wrote:

Thanks for the tip!

Actually, I'm not using NFS but I did move my /root directory to /usr
because my root partition was pretty full.  I've moved it back. I guess it
wasn't such a good idea in the first place.

I have another question:
I've also moved my /var directory to /usr because it kept ending up full
with all the e-mail and print jobs. Could this cause a problem ?

Thanks !

>	[ML]  is your root home directory NFS mounted by any chance?  If
>it is, don't do that.  Namely, the default shell for root is csh and it
>always tries to read .cshrc from the users home directory on start (we
>have had a similar problem on our HPUX boxen, albeit not for root).
>
>	there is still a way to get in, if your rcmd/rshd are enabled:
>
>	rsh localhost -l root /bin/sh -i
>
>	it should ask for password and let you in.  -i is for prompt (at
>least on ksh; interactive mode).
>
>	/Marino
>
>

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