Uhh.... "somehow" having all the logs disappear is cause for alarm. If this thing is network-connected, then that's a big red flag for a compromise of security. Andy > 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org