Hi,

Just thought I would write my first post. I am basically very new to linux.. I have rhel 5.2 sever. while the system booting the following
error had shown.

touch: can't touch '/var/lib/random-seed ; No such file or directory
chmod; can't access'/var/lib/random-seed ; No such file or directory

touch; can't touch '/var/log/wtmp ; No such file or directory
chgrp; can't access '/var/run/utmp; No such file or directory

INIT:Id "x" respawing too fast: disabled for 5
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit; line 914: /var/log/dmesg: No such file or directory

touch: can't touch /var/run/getkey-done : No such file or directory
touch: can't touch /var/lock/subsys/kudzu; No such file or directory
touch: can't touch /var/lock/subsys/network; No such file or directory
starting auditd: [failed]

please anyone help me, how to fix this issue. I searched in google but I couldn't get any answer. Kindly tell me the standard procedure how to update these missing files from souce (i.e cd, dvd).

Thanks in Advance

Regards

wild guess here but do you have a /var directory?

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... more wild ........

Your '/var/' directory is on another partition.
And is not mounted and / or not included in /etc/fstab/

Solution : Use a rescue cd / live Linux OS to boot into the
computer .. and inspect, what you have, and what is missing.
.....

of course, yes I had a /var directory...

Regards...