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

[Bill Jorgensen]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, D. Stimits wrote:

> "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.

I would try to touch that file on another machine. Use ftp to put the file
in place in /.infs01 and see what happens. Sometimes certain processess
are looking for a timestamped file. See if this gets you around your issue.
I would say this is particulaly possible given the fact that ftp and webmin
allows access to the box.

Bill Jorgensen

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