Lane Lester wrote:
>
> Civileme said:
> > Well open /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu with kedit and search for
> > telinit
> >
> > the line should look like
> >
> > grep -q "^id:5:initdefault:" /etc/inittab && telinit 5
> > If it doesn't, our problem may end there
>
> Yep, that's what it says.
>
> > Now the ~/.compupic/def.phd shows up in both directories so it is
> > something you are using, but what? I do not recall this one from
> > my experience. Could it be some resource file that runs?
>
> It's a graphics viewer that I use infrequently. It looks like a binary file
> that starts with "Photodex File Mirror 1.00_"
>
> > dynamically into an environment variable. See if you can dump
> > your environment with
> >
> > printenv
> > If a variable is set to telinit or "telinit 5", then we need to
> > rgrep for it to find out where the setting is coming from.
>
> It's posted below my sig and looks innocent.
>
> > Also, look at /etc/fstab and see if there are mounts after /proc
> > in the table order. If so, do the rgrep on each of those mounts
> > (/mnt/* excluded of course).
>
> There is only:
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
>
> and
> rgrep -i -l -r telinit /dev/pts
> didn't turn up anything.
> --
> Lane
> ____
> Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
> Using Linux to get where I want to go...
>
> PWD=/root
> COLORFGBG=15;default;0
> WINDOWID=41943042
> HOSTNAME=localhost
> HISTFILESIZE=1000
> LESSKEY=/etc/.less
> LANGUAGE=en
> PS1=[\u@\h \W]\$
> ENV=/root/.bashrc
> KDEDIR=/usr
> LESS=-MM
> USER=root
> MACHTYPE=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu
> LC_ALL=en
> MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
> INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
> LINGUAS=en_US:en
> LANG=en
> COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm
> DISPLAY=unix:0.0
> LOGNAME=root
> SHLVL=1
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> USERNAME=root
> HOSTTYPE=i586
> OSTYPE=linux-gnu
> HISTSIZE=1000
> HOME=/root
> TERM=rxvt
> SECURE_LEVEL=3
> _=/usr/bin/printenv
> LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;
> 01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*
> .btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=0
> 1;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=0
> 1;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.g
> if=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;
> 35:
> PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/myscript
> s
NOTHING there
Let's take a wild stab.... do you have a file called
/etc/inittab~? If so, move or delete it.
Then restore that line at the bottom of inittab.
There is just a slight possibility that the backup inittab is
being read; I observed another changed initscript
/etc/rc.d/init.d/S00halt was also not taking the right effect
because the backup was being used by the system.
SO try that. There is little else left to try--your telinit has
to be coming from kudzu or from
one of the directories that might not have been checked
rgrep -i -l -r telinit /tmp
rgrep -i -l -r telinit /usr
rgrep -i -l -r telinit /var
IF nothing else comes up, then this is not possible. Computers
behave in predictable programmable fashion. We just need to know
enough of the system to bring the apparent magic into reality
Civileme
--
Anyone remember TurboDOS? How about Formula/Formula II or
Final Word?
