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[ILUG] Users have dissappeared {Scanned}

[ILUG] Users have dissappeared {Scanned}

Matt Lemon matthew at jacklemon.com
Thu Apr 15 16:48:40 IST 2004


No, just some log files and a .gz of an old backup.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Conor Wynne" <weeboy at conorwynne.com>
To: "Matt Lemon" <matthew at jacklemon.com>
Cc: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Users have dissappeared {Scanned}


>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a big problem.  The server that my company uses to store profiles
> > and mail files on refuses to let anyone (including root) login.  After
> > trawling through the log I quickly saw that the / partition was out of
> > space.  I removed some files that weren't needed and restarted the
> > machine.
>
> OOps, so you may have deleted some important ones?
> What all did you delete? /var /etc /usr???
>
> >
> > It starts but if I look in Webmin, there are no users listed and it
still
> > won't let anyone login.
>
> Can the user still login locally/ssh to the server? /etc/passwd still
> exists right?
>
> Conor Wynne
> Dublin
> Irlande.
>
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