On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, scott wrote:
> That is what it says when I log in as my normal user. So I type whoami
> and it says no user name for user 500 (?!). I have no idea where this
Have a look in /etc/passwd. There should be a line sommat like:
mike:x:500:500:Mike:/home/mike:/bin/bash
if any of the fields are blank then this may be the problem.
> thing that I have done is try to get into an irc chat room called #linux
> and I was kicked off before I could type anything...for flooding (what
Very odd. Flooding means you said too much too quickly...
> thereafter and upon rebooting (prolly didn't need to do this, but I am a
> recovering windoze junky) the rpc.mounted, rpc.mfsd and smbd daemons had
> all lost their PIDs and were not stopped normally. (This is not the
I don't know why this happens, but it doesn't matter.
HTH
--
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The IBM purchase of ROLM gives new meaning to the term "twisted pair".
-- Howard Anderson, "Yankee Group"
