I have different iterations of Rivendell running on a couple of machines in my basement, including a really old 32-bit version on a clunkaroony 2004 Dell. This machine I dont take too seriously, so it ends up as a websurfing box among other roles.
A few days ago, I stuck a Slax Live disc in the machine just to see what it had going for it. I was told if a machine can't run a Slax disc, it wont run anything. So up it came, it ran just just fine, I yawned, ejected the disc and powered it down. No biggie; it ran so I guess I'll keep the machine. The other night when I fired up Rivendell on the same cheap computer, I had no music, no audio, no test logs to speak of, nothing. A df check showed that the files still existed on the computer but as far as RD was concerned, I was sitting by myself inside a big empty radio station. The Slax disc - ostensibly a live disc that should not touch the contents of the hard drive - actually *did* mess with it and made changes that still took effect after ejecting the disc. Inside a shell, I saw the computer now defaulted to a user named "slax", not "rd". So much for "no changes will be made to your hard drive". There are enough outside forces conspiring to knock you off the air, including jocks that surf the web through the on-air machine. Curious casual users such as myself can eliminate one of them now by being careful where we stick those live CDs. -AP _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
