On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Rich Cook wrote:
> So I wonder why the disk was thrashing?
"top" showed several copies of logrotate running very busily. A copy
of gzip was also running (to gzip logs, I assume). My guess is something
went wrong and they got into a race condition or something.
> How do you explain the reboots?
The machine didn't reboot on its own. *I* rebooted the system.
> Does a roommate play with the
> machine as well?
He only has a user access, only because we used to use the dialup through
the system (he had an account so he can type "/sbin/ifup ppp0"). He
doesn't log in anymore now that we have a 24/7 access, and "last" shows he
hasn't logged on in a while.
> I agree the thrashings could be a defragger and security
> warnings may be your old nmap settings,
Cool. So no problems.
> That makes sense. How long would it take to reinstall Linux
> nowadays, I'm curious. (I use Mac OS X right now, sort of a new
> Linux, if you will).
Installation probably takes not long if I knew exactly what packages to
check/uncheck but since I don't I'd need to go through the whole
list. Also I'd need to add ssh server, portsentry, setup tcp wrapper,
etc.
-Mark
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