Hello new fedora user here, long time Linux(debian/ubuntu &
centos) user though. I experienced a problem with one of our server
with Fedora 9(I know its old but the developer insisted this
version).
3 days ago the dev team was suddenly disconnected when they were
uploading files. I was called to assess the problem. ssh was
returning "connection refused" even thoug there was no firewall on
that server according to the devs. When I was not able to login too
I rebooted the server in hope that I only forgotten my own password.
On reboot I dropped to single user mode and noticed that the "/"
partition was full so I cleared unwanted files and another thing is
I noticed that both the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file was blank.
Good thing there was a copy on /etc called "passwd--" and
"shadow--", I cp'ed those files and rebooted and Voila everything
was fixed.
Now my question is what was the cause why those files had gone
blank? I never experience this kind of problem before in ubuntu and
centos so I was thinking it was a distro-specific problem. I already
search google but the same question had gone unanswered by the
community.
regards
--
Rod James U. Bio
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as aj would say, waiting always works
either what you want happens, or you die and cannot
be perturbed anymore
the trouble with this philosophy is that aj
sincerely believes it