a problem with bastille-linux

[Eric Gilliland]

Dear Sir,

I am having a problem with Bastille-Linux.  I don't know if you provide 
support, but I thought it would be worth a shot.

First my system.  I have a dual boot system running Mandrake Linux 8.1 and 
Win ME.  The computer is a Dell Domension 8100 Pentium 4 1.3 with 256 megs 
of RAM.  It is just my home computer and is not a server or anything.  I use 
it to write documents, play  games, and surf the web.

A few days ago I started having problems with my mouse, which I fixed by 
uninstalling and reinstalling it.  After doing this I ran 
InteractiveBastille.  I made mostly the default choices.  After doing this I 
tried to test the firewall by doing /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall start 
and got an error message saying there was no such file (many times).  I 
tried to fix my mouse (the wheel was not working) and inadvertantly caused 
my previous mouse problem to reoccur.  When I tried to start a terminal as 
su I could not.  When I started a normal terminal and attempted to become 
root with su i got a 'maximum file limit reached' error and was not allowed. 
  I can now not log on as root.  When running InteractiveBastille I had 
selected the 'maximum file size thing'. I can onlt assume the inability to 
log on as root is related to bastille.

In a related issue, I had taken the script to reverse bastille's changes 
from your website, but I have not been able to make it work.  I could not 
even make it work previously when I could log in as root.  When it tries to 
run I get numerous syntax and other errors.

Can you tell me how to reverse the bastille settings while not logged in as 
root?

Thank you very much for your time and for your help.

Good day,

Eric Gilliland

J. Eric Gilliland
jegilliland at hotmail.com
Meet it is I set it down, that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5

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