> Thanks, > I spent the better part of the day trying to figure this one out. Not only > did > I lose the ablilty to become root, but my machine hung when trying to start > the > postgresql postmaster (which I believe needed root privlages). I was stumped > because I was able to boot up from my rescue disk and chroot to my system and > log in as root, but was not able to do it if I booted w/o the rescue disk. Do > you know how the sysklogd was able to stop all login's, su's and my postgre?
Thus - root logins, su's and (I guess postgresql) call syslogd when they are started: hence a broken sysklogd can make them hang. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
