Probably the easiest way to recover is to reinstall RH6.0 again. In fact
in this case I would choose the upgrade option.
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Phao Chel wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am newbie to linux (also I don't know much of
> system's related stuff about unix in general). I had
> installed redhat 6.0 sometime back but recently it had
> started to give me some problems. Like when I try to
> logout by clicking "logout" it doesn't logme out.
> "Someone" told me that linux stores some
> configurations files to restore your system back to
> its state of last login when you re-login and
> sometimes this restoration takes a long time. I don't
> know how much of that is true (or even if I said it
> correct) but I started to delete some .conf files in
> the /etc directory (by switching as root) it worked
> fine. But this time when I was trying to do the same
> (delete some .conf files) I actually deleted all
> *.conf files in the /etc directory and now I am not
> able to login to my system as root or any other user.
> Seems like I deleted the password file or something??
>
> Can someone suggest me what has happened and how grave
> a situation am I in. Any solutions to the problems
> will be really-really appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Phao
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