3 Oct
2003
3 Oct
'03
17:22
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 18:15, del-SLE wrote:
wierd... could it(/var/log/faillog)be corrupted?? what happens if you >/var/log/faillog to clear it out.. Then try loggin in on ctl-alt-f1 and see what happens if you fail a couple times.. if I cat faillog it has some readable text, but still garbly unless you run strings on it...
Jim
The post seems to have lost the command. Do you mean cat /dev/null > /var/log/faillog or something else?
Renamed /var/log/faillog to faillog.old. dev nulled the file. tried login and now it logs tty2 with strings! 8-) File size is 24 bytes, that's the new file. The old file is 12048 bytes. Ok! It seems to be fine now, I'll do the same on the other box. Thanks Jim, -- del suse-linux-e