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Date:      Tue, 07 May 1996 20:23:30 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HELP!!! 
Message-ID:  <199605080323.UAA10216@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 May 1996 19:45:23 CDT." <Pine.HPP.3.92.960507194217.14236A-100000@martin.luther.edu> 

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>System: IBM pentium running FreeBSD 2.1
>Problem:  Up until 15-20 minutes ago, all was fine.  Now, all of a sudden,
>nobody can login from anywhere but the x-login on my 4th virtual console.
>I can't even login as anybody on one of the other 3 virtual consoles!!!!!!
>There are no signs of attack or anything.  The password file appears to be
>fine.  The group file appears to be fine.  The database me be messed up,
>but I don't know how to check it.   I need help on this ASAP, and that
>means hopefully tonight!! I've got users depending on this machine and
>I've never seen a problem like this before -ever-!!! What has happened????
>Help!!! Please!!!

   You didn't mention what happens when you try to log in. If it just hangs,
this might be caused by a nameserver being down.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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