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rpfc at mega

Feb 11, 2005, 10:12 AM

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Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root. [In reply to]

> This is the second time I've had strange problems
> with gentoo; the first time my /root/.bash_history was of size 0 (zero)
> which led to a re-format and re-install. What to do?

I don't get it. Why re-formet and reinstall gentoo when .bash_history
was of size 0?! You can delete that file anytime and your system will
still work. You can also redirect it do /dev/null ending up with no bash
history at all and your system will still work!

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Subject	User	Time
Weird problems, unable to login as root.	petekarl at student	Feb 11, 2005, 8:56 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	john at viperlin	Feb 11, 2005, 9:17 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	petekarl at student	Feb 11, 2005, 9:36 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	Barry.Schwartz at chemoelectric	Feb 11, 2005, 9:54 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	nick77 at dtnspeed	Feb 11, 2005, 10:11 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	petekarl at student	Feb 11, 2005, 10:24 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	Barry.Schwartz at chemoelectric	Feb 11, 2005, 11:18 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	petekarl at student	Feb 11, 2005, 10:20 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	rpfc at mega	Feb 11, 2005, 10:12 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	petekarl at student	Feb 11, 2005, 10:29 AM
Re: Weird problems, unable to login as root.	rpfc at mega	Feb 11, 2005, 10:40 AM

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