[afnog] ssh Problem

[Thato Molise]

Thanx a lot I think I will have to re-install from scratch!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
To: "Thato Molise" <info at datacom.co.ls>
Cc: <afnog at afnog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: ssh Problem


> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:35:36PM +0200,
> Thato Molise <info at datacom.co.ls> wrote 
> a message of 193 lines which said:
> 
>> Apr 25 10:41:29 host mgetty[4479]: mod: cannot open line
>> /dev//etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1: No such file or
>> directory
> 
> There is absolutely no reason for mgetty (a serial line daemon) to use
> ifcfg-eth1 (a script to configure an Ethernet interface). Apparently,
> the configuration of your machine has been seriously damaged, either
> by a filesystem corruption (disk problem?) or by a clueless person
> editing files at random.
> 
> You will need a deep checking of your configuration
> files. Reinstalling from scratch may be faster.