Re: red hat system almost talking: question related to comments

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

This situation you describe isn't exactly making sense to me. But, I would 
offer the following suggestions:

There should be no guessing game about whether you boot with appropriate 
settings or not. Take care of that:

1.)	Get rid of the default /boot/message file. Of course, if you make 
the remaining changes below, it won't matter, but do it anyway. Replace it 
with some simple text like "Welcome to Cheryl's Linux Computer" it doesn't 
matter -- just get rid of the graphic that Redhat puts up by default. PS: 
It's smart to get some ^7 chars in there to ring your bell, as it were;

2.)	Edit lilo.conf to start linux with your speech synth talking if 
you haven't done this already;

3.)	Edit /etc/inittab to make runlevel 3 your default runlevel. Look 
for a line that says:

id:5:initdefault:

and change it to read:

id:3:initdefault:

As for what pam is, it stands for pluggable authentication modules. You 
can usually answer such questions for yourself, though, by using the man 
pages -- man, as in manual. So, you could type:

man pam

Now, a couple of other key basics:

Let me suggest the following man command:

man bash

Also, let me point you to /usr/doc where there's all kind of 
documentation. Pay particular attention to the HOWTO directory there. 
That's your gold mine. Inside there, there are a couple of HOWTOs 
particularly for beginners. Again, I recommend the bash HOWTO, and 
probably the HOWTO for Windows and DOS users.

Have you gotten to mail and web browsing? Most folks start out, and some 
never leave, pine and lynx for these, respectively. In each, be sure to 
configure them to track the cursor. It'll make you a lot happier.

 On 
Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Your description brings up a question I have.  A few times I have booted
> and ended up at something for the login tha said "Pam unix" and something
> about opening a session.  At this point I can't read the screen or seem to
> do anything with my keyboard and my keyboard doesn't echo, but I get
> announcements occasionally about chron stipping for mail or something like
> that.  One time when this happened I know it was because i accidentally
> had X booting up at start, but this has happened once or twice without me
> having any idea how I got there.  What is a "pam unix session" and how
> does one end up there without planning it?
> 
> Cheryl
> 
> 
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