Re: [misterhouse-users] OT: Linux problem getting on as root

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If ur not a linux gut dont run debian
 Eric Azinger wrote:Yeah, I don't want to create hysteria or anything but this happened to me. I had Pacbell, and Red Hat. Not being a linux
guy, I "hit return" thru everything. I couldn't log in as root, and I was starting to see performance degradation.

I had someone else put Debian on it and all has been cool.

Eric

Neil Cherry wrote:

> Alan Womack wrote:
>
> >would a couple of you linux gurus ming assisting me in:
> >
> >a: diagnosing
> >
> >b: repairing
> >
> >My inability to log in as root most of the time?
> >
> >E.g. I login in as root, enter my password and get a $ prompt instead of a # prompt. Therefore I am not really root.
> >
> >Sometimes I can log in as root and all is perfect, most of the times it is not.
> >
> >I've run a rpm -Va on the system, but I don't know how to read the output.
> >
> >
> >
> This does not sound good, It sounds like you've got a hacked system.
> When you
> get logged in as the $ user type in "id" , also try to "cat
> /var/log/messages".
>
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