Re: Red Hat problems

Thank you for the suggestion.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Si" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: Red Hat problems


> Michael Kallio wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >  
> > Currently running red hat 7.0 as a report server. Just recently our 
> > report server stopped sending out reports. At the time we didn't have 
> > the root password so we followed the knowledge base and used lilo to 
> > reset our root password. However, after new password is entered this 
> > message appears at the next prompt "file repair (#)" each time we 
> > attempt a command it echos back same message with a new number. How do 
> > we initiate the repair to these files? We got a copy of Knoppicks 
> > Konqoueror and can view the current h/drive and found the location of 
> > the fstab on hda8. Also couldn't restore from a zip b/up as well kept 
> > getting unknown file system.
> > A consultant advised to install a new h/drive & zip to see if we could 
> > copy the file from the existing drive. Knoppicks program see's both 
> > drives but since its read only unable to move files to new location. 
> > When attempting to restore from b/up still get unknown file system 
> > message. After installing red hat on new drive attempted to manually 
> > copy files to new drive. However, old drive hda8 isn't recognized when 
> > inputting /mnt commands and such. We've followed the commands in books 
> > and knolwedge bases to assist us but to no avail. Any ideas would 
> > greatly be appreciated at this point.
> >  
> > Michael Kallio
> > CSSS Inc.
> > 800-367-2882 ext. 6357 
> 
> I don't know if it work, but you can have a try: (I just want help you
> get the root's password)
> 1)Boot the box with other linux, like the linux on one floppy, or the RH
> install CD,
> 2)Mount your file system
> 3)edit the /etc/passwd, remove the passwd from the file (it maybe like
> "root:*:...", just remove the '*'), you can backup it before do anything
> if you like
> 4)reboot you linux box with your hd
> by now, the root should without any password.
> 
> wish it can help you.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
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