Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 18:16:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Lannes <Lannes@mwweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev corrupt? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971222181148.27094K-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199712222042.MAA25329@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Lannes wrote: > Hello, > I'm somewhat new to unix, and I am trying to keep a box running. Finding > it a bit difficult too. I'm normally a windows user, and not sure how to > repair this. Is it a /dev, a kernel error, or something else? When my shell > users try to log on, they get no connection, and the box will not respond > to me in any way. I've tried a restart, but nothing worked. I have a load > of important files/accts on the box, and was hoping I could somehow create > it again and bring it back up without losing them. Can you login from the console? If so, do you get any error messages about the network when the system boots? You should also check the /var/log/messages file for network errors? Can you ping your network router address? If not, I'd say you have a network configuration problem. If you can get these answers, it will be easier to suggest what to check. I suppose if you could relay what "netstat -ni" and "netstat -nr" say, it could also be useful. Just because the outside world is not able to connect to your system, does not mean there is anything more than a misconfiguration problem. Furthermore, you should not need to reload the system, or otherwise risk loosing your local data. Hope this is reassuring. cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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