RE: [newbie] Locked out at the LOGIN :

[Helsby, James]

Do you have access to the system? Or did you loose your passwords?   From the way you worded it, it sounds like you lost your passwords, but what I think you are looking for is how to bring the gui back online. Go to init 5. That starts the gui in a separate NOHUP process.   Cheers,             James   -----Original Message----- From: Paul Tyler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Locked out at the LOGIN :   I can't seem to see the wood for the trees... In a short form   1. TOTALLY fed up with windows 2. Installed LINUX 7.1 (Mandrake) 3. Marvelled at how pretty it was (and how stupid I had been to wait for the change over) 4.  rebooted to get a pretty low res picture of the linux penguin and   Mandrake 7.1 Kernal 2.2.15-4mdk on an 1586 /tty1 localhost login:   No pretty GUI asking me which user, no ultra stable OS to play with....   Pulled some old unix out of the back of my head to even remember the shutdown command!   Please help, I'm bright (some say nice) but terribly stupid at the moment...   Merry Christmas....   Paul Tyler  :O)