Hi Christian, On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:16:30AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > ran shadowconfig -on > > This gave shadow passwords > > > > Problem with email > > ran apt-get install --reinstall exim4 > > read messages I had missed before and put colons into the list of > > hostnames. This allowed receipt of mail for this domain. > > > >From all what you described, these two steps are puzzling. They seem > to show that something did not run properly in 2nd stage (after the > 1st reboot), which left you with an incompletely configured system. > > Did the system propose you to create a new user and set the root > password after the 1st reboot? > I think that immediately after the first re-boot I was either asked for a password or was presented with a prompt. I hit return and found myself logged in as the root user. I cannot be sure that I ignored a prompt to add a user at that time. I am reasonably sure that I added three users manually before the second reboot. It was after that second reboot that I found I could not access my home directory, and that /dev/hda was not accessible.
> Did it ask you questions about configuring the mail system ? > > (except of course when you reinstalled exim4) > No question was asked, and I will file this problem as a bug against exim4. It may seem trivial, but loss of access to mail caused me a lot of problems. Apologies for misleading you. Pardon my curiosity, but do you know why my IDE hard disk and the DVD-ram disk at /dev/hda and /dev/hdd cannot be accessed? regards Richard A Lough -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]