[PLUG] Re: Unable to use the root account in FC5

[Shantanoo Mahajan]

+++ ?????????????????? ?????????????????? ?????????????????? [PLUG] [21-07-06 11:41 +0530]:
| On Friday 21 July 2006 11:25, Prateek Tandon wrote:
| Boot into console mode and see if you can log in as root. If you can, then 
| problem is with X login with root account. Try startx >log.err 2>&1 and see 
| what errors turn up.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log maybe helpful.

| >                 Also, I was wondering, is the standard Linux vanilla
| > kernel a monolithic or a hybrid kernel ? 
| 
| - how does it matter?
| - define monolithic andhybrid kernel. It seems that the definition of these 
| terms are in minds of the person.
| 
| Personally I think linuxis monolithic kernel. If you/somebody disagrees, I 
| don't mind. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel


| > And, are there viruses on the 
| > Linux platform, because SUSE Desktop Linux 10.1 has a built in
| > antivirus?
| 
| May be it is for scanning mails for windows viruses when the installation acts 
| as mail server. There are no known and wide-spread viruses in linux. There 
| are security vulnerabilities and patches but no viruses.

Also linux supports SMB. One can use samba for fileserver for windows
clients. And later can use antivirus for scanning files.

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