Also being pretty much of a newbie to linux i can suggest some things but cannot promise anything! All that i can suggest is that if you are using LILO to boot your system then adding 1 after your kernel name will boot the system in single user mode (runlevel 1) this can be used to get in and fix your system. Generally removing files in /etc isn't a good idea unless you are absolutely sure that you know what you are doing but the situation isn't really desperate. All i can suggest is that you restore your config files as best you can using single user mode and the RedHat configuration utils.
How this is some help.
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From: Phao Chel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 November 1999 12:23
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: deleted .config files
Hi All
I am newbie to linux (also I don't know much of
system's related stuff about unix in general). I had
installed redhat 6.0 sometime back but recently it had
started to give me some problems. Like when I try to
logout by clicking "logout" it doesn't let me.
"Someone" told me that linux stores some
configurations files to restore your system back to
its state of last login when you re-login and
sometimes this restoration takes a long time. I don't
know how much of that is true (or even if I said it
correct) but I started to delete some .conf files in
the /etc directory (by switching as root) it worked
fine. But this time when I was trying to do the same
(delete some .conf files) I actually deleted all
*.conf files in the /etc directory and now I am not
able to login to my system as root or any other user.
Seems like I deleted the password file or something??
Can someone suggest me what has happened and how grave
a situation am I in. Any solutions to the problems
will be really-really appreciated.
thanks
Phao
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