On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I > installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, > you will need to boot with your rescue disk (you do have one, don't you?) > and either disable sysklogd (chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd) or install the > hamm version.
No rescue disk needed, just type "linux single" at the lilo prompt, then do chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd > (Thanks to Alex Romosan for posting the chmod information on > debian-devel). (Thanks to Bob for saving me countless more hours.)