[ale] diald hanging startup

[charlie]

I'm having a problem that I think someone here can remedy quickly.  Upon
startup the machine "hangs" on something in diald startup in rc.d  The
machine is still responding to me typing etc.  I can reboot by pressing
C-A-Del, but the startup doesn't proceed any further.  Does anyone know
how I can get past this to change the startup file?  Isn't there a combination
of keys that would let me get to runlevel 1 or 2 so I can do maintence?

Also how would I get the output of a diald session from by host that I connect
to?  I'm trying to see what the chatscript is issuing to startup the link?
Any ideas?  I've tried looking in /var/adm/message*, but I can't seem to
find it.

thanks
charlie


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