Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we
went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial
aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it
said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." I said "Uhhhhh...." and
tried again, a few times. I got the same result. I cd'd to /var/log, and
tehre were a total of 3 files there. And I believe they were all
directories. It got too weird, so I rebooted. I did it twice, because
sendmail was taking ages to start and giving bizarre errors. So I told it
to stop running sendmail and httpd on startup, since I don't even use them
anyway. After the reboot, /var/log/messages reappeared and was fine and
ppp worked fine. So then the problem was that my tty (mingetty) was set
to 'dumb' instead of vt100. I can't figure that one out. I also
periodically get messages (write style) from syslogd in assorted garbage.
It is weird high ascii stuff, i think. There is something about 'not able
to piece together parts of message.' This all started sometime between 8
and 10 pm tonight. I am running ip masquerading and ipchains over a ppp
dialup. Talking to a group of friends who use linux wasn't helpful,
except in stopping sendmail and httpd on boot.
I'm getting close to going "gyaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgh" and hitting it. Help?
Conni
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