Michael Alberts wrote:
thanks, but its not working. I am getting a bad
password error when i type in anything for a new
password.
If you try your rescue disk and it still fails, you may be left with
a new install. Maybe someone else has another trick you
can try.
--
Barry :-)
Registere
thanks, but its not working. I am getting a bad
password error when i type in anything for a new
password.
--- Barry Premeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Alberts wrote:
>
> > alright, well, I was cooking just fine until i
> screwed
> > something up and now it seems that the password
> h
Michael Alberts wrote:
>
> alright, well, I was cooking just fine until i screwed
> something up and now it seems that the password has
> been changed for 'root'. Is there any way of changing
> or correcting the root password IF you don't know what
> it is to begin with? Currently, I can only acc
alright, well, I was cooking just fine until i screwed
something up and now it seems that the password has
been changed for 'root'. Is there any way of changing
or correcting the root password IF you don't know what
it is to begin with? Currently, I can only access
'single' init. The X system won'
If ya have any questions about what certain services are just
ask. Generally a home machine will want about a dozen things running but
you should try doing a port scan on your machine to make sure you don't
have a lot of weird ports open. Using tcp wrappers is at least as
important as shutting dow
> a recommend list of daemons to remove. I deleted the ones they
> recommended (using DrakConf). Then I restarted my system.
I don't believe you deleted any files. My interpretation of this statement is
that you went into Startup Services and deselected these daemons. All this
does is affect
Greg Stewart wrote:
>
> As root, you can view the /var/log/messages file in a text editor (vi, or
> your favourite), or cat the file piping it through more:
>
> cat /varlog/messages |more
>
> Do you have a list of the daemons you "deleted", and a description of the
> fashion in which you achie
As root, you can view the /var/log/messages file in a text editor (vi, or
your favourite), or cat the file piping it through more:
cat /varlog/messages |more
Do you have a list of the daemons you "deleted", and a description of the
fashion in which you achieved this? Actually removing things is
My system:
AMD K6-2 500MHZ
64Mb ram
10 Gb drive
Mandrake 7.0
using KDE
netscape & a modem
What I did (what a dumb thing to do):
I got some info from the internet about stopping all unused daemons with
a recommend list of daemons to remove. I deleted the ones they
recommended (using DrakConf). The
