The ability and inability to log into my server as root or to su to root, appears to be random.
Today when I returned home, I watched a shutdown -rF now check the file system and not make any complaints about the file system. It checked both /boot and /. I then logged in remotely to my account Alan. I then did a su to go super user. I got this prompt: Bash-2.05$ meaning it did not go to super user access. I exited and tried again, again, again, and again. All with the same result. I then went to the console and logged into root I got: Webby login: root Password: You have new mail. No directory /home/root! Logging in with home = "/" bash-2.05$ if I now change my directory to /root, do a ls -al, then exit again. Now if I log into root: Webby login: root Password: You have new mail. [root@webby root]# AND if I try to su from the remote console at the moment I get: [Alan@Webby Alan]$ su root Password: [root@Webby Alan]# cd / [root@Webby /]# [root@Webby /]# exit exit [Alan@Webby Alan]$ su root Password: [root@Webby Alan]# which obviously is working for the moment. Alan Epson Inkjet Printer FAQ: http://welcome.to/epson-inkjet - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
