Re: [TCLUG:21119] RH 5.1 question

[Helper Monkey <cbidler@talkware.net>]

Thanks to everyone who helped me out with this one.  Apparently the
problem
was User Error.  Here's what my friend had to say in his last e-mail:

> Some dumb-ass had
> installed WordPerfect on the friggin 99meg root partition. We removed it.
> Then noticed that somehow our var/ directory was *missing*. Our utmp and
> wtmp files had been erased, and w,last, syslogd, etc. wouldn't work. We
> fixed it by adding a couple of lines to the syslog.conf and restarting a
> couple of times. Works now. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

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 Chris H. Bidler                                   cbidler@talkware.net 
 Associate Engineer, Applications Group               
 Universal Talkware Corp.

 "In any event, is a O^(log N) search that returns the wrong answer
  really better than an O^N search that returns the right answer?"
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