Re: Bit Twister: Is this the dhclient-exit-hooks you were talking about?

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:18:35 +0000 (UTC), Ohmster wrote:

Had to delete
that and go look at the numlockx instructions again.

That is what the junk (test account) if for. :-)

This time I put the line to start the xconsole in in
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and boy did that ever work A-OK!

Yuck, dinking up system wide file for one user is not the suggested
recomendation.

The instructions for putting stuff in xinitrc mentioned starting x with
gdm, so I ran gdm as root and got stuck in run level 5, I do not want to
stay in run level 5 and by killing the gdm process remotely with ssh, I
ended up with a blank screen.

Yep, helps to have a few extra root terms up and running when starting
to dink around as root.

I then told the computer to reboot from the ssh window and lost my
term connection but the machine did not reboot.

Yep, liberial use of ps aux to find funky process and use of the
kill process_id kill_number can do wonders...

The script kiddies got in through apache somehow and had my box
churning out like 3,000 spam emails a day.

Yes, have seen a few fixes for Apache. Now there are warings/fixes on php.

Had to shut it down for good and do the Fedora install to fix it.

A clean install is the recommended procedure for an infected system.

So sad, newegg has a super kick-ass SATA 360Gb drive on sale now, sale ends
tomorrow, for $94.99. I want it so bad that I am freaking crying about it.
SATA will not work in the Linux box but it sure would kick *** in my XP
box.

Yep, was reading IDE was going the way of the doodo bird. That is why
I spent the last week on 2007 Mandriava Release Candidate 2. It has
sata support. Have been running on an old 1 gig hz amd cpu and finaly
broke down and bought a nice shinney HP Athlon 64 bit 3800+ system. I
have found if I blink during commands I do not see page changes when
playing around.
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