On Feb 27, 2000 at 02:35, Bhavesh Vora wrote:
> I have Linux loaded on my machine. SOmetime back I had made some changes in
> the "rc.local" file. I added one line that was supposed to echo a message
> every 30 seconds. The next time when I booted my PC I did not get the login
> prompt, but the message was getting echoed every 30 seconds.
>
> How do I get the login prompt again?
Stick an & at the end of the line you added.
Oh dear, how do you get back into the system? Try ^C if it's not letting
you in. If still not, you need a boot disk.
A while back I had two semi-independant (semi because they mounted each
other (and that's NOT illegal!)) when appropriate) linux partitions for
just this sort of thing. One was slackware, IIRC.
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