[NTLUG:Discuss] /etc/host unreable ... huh?

[Randall Gibson]

Can you startx as root?? If so, then you know it is a permissions problem,
and not something else.


On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:26:26 ./aal wrote:
> Thank you all for the great help.
> I have applied C Browne's solution to clean up my /var:
> rm the bad /var/log and recreate it
> things seem better now, but not happy yet.
> 
> The newest chapter in my strange comedy of errors is...
> I am getting an error in the VC I run startx from
> (usually tty1 as a normal user):
> 
> "Can't open /etc/hosts for reading! (chmod a+r /etc/host to fix)"
> 
> This fills the screen. I have checked /etc/hosts and it is a+r.
> 
> now what is going on?
> 
> ./aal
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