[lug] oldLOGIN missing. Unable to login to box!!!

[D. Stimits]

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> Alex Horan wrote:
> >
> > When I try to login into my Linux box, via telnet or the console, I receive
> > the following error message 'dev/sdc0/.infs01/oldLOGIN missing' and it will
> > not let me login. I can ftp to the server and also use Webmin but cannot
> > gain console/telnet access. I am trying to find the equivalent file on
> > another box but can't find one.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
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> Have you tried booting to single user mode?
> 

Forgot to mention...you can also boot a rescue disk and mount your drive
on it like a 2nd partition. E.G., assuming sdc0 is your root partition
(it seems to be the one it thinks is missing a file), and assuming ext2:
boot to rescue
mount -text2 /dev/sdc0 [name some mount point here]

You can find Tom's rtbt rescue at:
http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html

That particular one includes scsi support, and a number of hardware
items many rescues don't seem to have.