[CentOS] your session only lasted less than 10 seconds error

Wed May 12 17:14:12 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

> Dear roth
> This is wt u have started using of filthy language.

"Filthy language"? Did you mean putty, which is a free Windows xterm that
everyone uses?

Or did you mean me telling you to read the *ahem* fine manuals?

> For your kind info when some one starts learning obviously makes mistake.
> This is the reaosn i have installed it in vbox
> Any way thank you for ur help i reinstalled my machine
> It is obviously the cent os which got crashed not the vbox i think u
> can get this from the error i have posted
>

And you have posted *no* error. What was in /var/log/messages? Or what was
on the monitor when it crashed?

       mark
>
> On 5/12/10, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> Chaitanya,
>>
>>    First, please stop top posting. Email is like a conversation, and
>> simply makes more sense if you go to the end, just like reading a
>> conversation. DO delete irrelevant stuff.
>>
>>>> Chaitanya wrote:
>>>
>>> This is the exact scenario of my machine.
>>> i am running the cent os under my virtual box and i have made a network
>>> bridge to that VBOX
>>
>> So, what's the host o/s, Windows?
>>>
>>> so from my machine i connect to the VBOX using the Xshell.
>>
>> What are you using, putty?
>>
>>> and by the way i am new to linux and this is my test machine so that i
>>> do
>>> some testing.
>>
>> So READ UP on Linux/Unix.
>>
>>> this is the F reason i am using the root user.
>>
>> DON'T. Either use root only to do maintenance, or just use sudo to do
>> that. Do *not* test as a root user, except for things only root can do.
>>
>>> what ever os is it i dont think logging in as root user will crash the
>>> system.
>>
>> It won't. However, if you're exposed to the 'Net, you are begging anyone
>> who finds a way to break in to take over your system. Also, doing things
>> as root, esp. if you don't know what you're doing, is a wonderful way to
>> destroy it. Think "format c:/".
>>>
>>> regarding the halt command i used it to check what this command will do
>>> and this one i have done from the F manual only.
>>
>> I have no idea what the "F manual" is. From the command line,
>> prompt> man halt
>>
>> Linux, unlike Windows, comes with man pages for almost all commands.
>>>
>>> but now my VBOX machine crashed.
>>
>> CentOS crashed, or the VBOX?
>> <snip>
>>
>>         mark
>>
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> Chaitanya
>
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