Hi all,
This afternoon we had to reboot an Alpha 800, because of a
software-installation. Two things went wrong:
* After entering the shutdown -r now command on a remote machine, the
system wouldn't come up. When we went to the console it was still at
boot-prompt. Entering the boot-command resulted in a clean boot,
however;
* When the system was up, we logged in with a system-manager account,
and the system did not recognize the "p" anymore. All "p"''s were "e"'s.
We copied the stty-setting of the .profile of root to the .profile of
this systemmanager-account, but it didn't make much difference, except
that now the ":" did not exist anymore. This only occured when we logged
in as systemmanager, not when we logged in as root, and the su'ed to
systemmanager. Also, it only occured on the console, not on remote
systems.
Just out of curiousity (nobody ever works on that console): what
settings should we look at?
Here is system manager's .profile:
PATH=$HOME/bin:${PATH:-/usr/bin:.}
export PATH
if [ ! "$DT" ]; then
stty dec
tset -I -Q
fi
MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/$USER
The system runs DU4.0D
Greetings,
Dagmar Galama
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Dagmar Galama
Origin TIS-DS System Management
Building VA-171A P.O. Box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven
( Phone : (+3140-27)89610 FAX : (+3140-27)83962
* Email : Dagmar.Galama_at_nl.origin-it.com
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Received on Wed Jan 06 1999 - 16:16:44 NZDT