3 Oct
2003
3 Oct
'03
17:19
del-SLE wrote:
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 18:11, Jim Bonnet 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?
Just issue: s4:/home/jimbo # >/var/log/faillog This cleans out the old faillog making it a 0 length file Jim