That's cool I got it all working now, just had to remove what I typed at the bottom of it and it let me login On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:28 AM, der.hans wrote: >> Am 24. Okt, 2008 schwätzte Mike Hoy so: >> >>> I edited this file and put echo cat >>> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature >> .bashrc at the end of it. >> >> You put the echo command in your .bashrc? >> >> If so, move your .bashrc to some other name, for example: >> >> mv -i .bashrc .bashrc.horked >> >> You might need to run that as root if you can't login as you. >> >> You probably have lots of extra information at the end of your .bashrc >> file and they're causing your login to fail. >> >> ciao, >> >> der.hans >> -- > > Mike, the reason der Hans says this is that the "echo cat ... >> > .bashrc" was not meant to be put into the .bashrc file but rather as a > command to append the "cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature" > line to .bashrc. By putting the echo line into .bashrc, you append > the cat line every time .bashrc is used thereby borking/horking the > file. So Hans is having you get that file out of the way so it can be > replaced or rebuilt. > > -- > Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only > animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and > what they ought to be. > - William Hazlitt > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Mike Hoy Saguaro Sports --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss