Mailing list troubles

[Forrest Cahoon <forrest@pconline.com>]

I tried to post a response to a recent message, using "r" in elm,
which has worked successfully before.  This time, instead of my
message being posted, I got the following reply from tclug-list-help
(which was not an address in the headers; I double-checked).

I wrote a "what happened" query to tclug-list-help, but that's just a
program, and spit back a generic "here are messages I understand"
response.

Has anyone else had problems like this?  What's going on?

Forrest

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In-Reply-To: <35CBBDCF.18017A62@chemsun.chem.umn.edu> from "Tim Wilson" at Aug 7, 98 09:54:07 pm
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> 
> Is there any way to kill RC5 and regain control of my console? Help...

OK, I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it will work ... but reading up
on LILO (I'm making a guess you use LILO here) there is a parameter "single"
to come up in single-user mode.  I.e., if you use "linux" as the name of
your linux partition, hold down the shift key on boot to get to the LILO>
prompt and enter

LILO> linux single
 
.... uh, I think ... something like that, anyway ...

I also found this passage:

Recent kernels also accept the options  init=<name>  and  noinitrd .  init  
specifies the name of the init program to execute. Therefore, if single 
mode cannot be entered because init is mis-configured, one may still be 
able to reach a shell using init=/bin/sh.  noinitrd  disables automatic 
loading of the initial RAM disk. Instead, its contents are available on 
/dev/initrd.

So, that's another LILO boot option to try.

Good Luck!

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