First of all, thanks to all who answered my question regarding the CD. I am running a basically off the shelf debian installation that is about 2 weeks old, so I haven't messed with it much. The first oddity is that, upon close inspection of ps -aux, I note two copies of /usr/sbin/lpd running. Any ideas why? I poked through the rc* stuff, but not being real used to the layout (coming from slack 3.0), I don't notice anything particularly obvious.
The second thing that makes me curious is the fact that there seem to be a lot of processes going by that I am not able to follow. What might they be? Following is the output of ps -aux, hit [del] now if you're not interested;-) 1 ? S 0:02 init 2 ? SW 0:00 kflushd 3 ? SW< 0:00 kswapd 9 ? S 0:00 update (bdflush) 142 ? S 0:00 /sbin/syslogd 144 ? S 0:00 /sbin/klogd 151 ? S 0:00 /sbin/kerneld 157 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd 160 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd <---- the dynamic duo..... 162 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd 191 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron 206 2 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 207 3 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 208 4 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 209 5 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 210 6 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 1030 ? R 1:21 X :0 1035 1 S 0:02 rxvt -geometry 80x24+55+1 -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-norm 2041 a3 S 0:01 pppd 2044 a3 S 0:02 wish /usr/local/bin/arc 120 2223 1 S 0:00 rxvt -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90 2319 1 S 0:01 rxvt -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90 2322 p1 S 0:00 -bash 4103 p1 R 0:00 ps -ax 155 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap 205 1 S 0:01 -bash 1028 1 S 0:00 sh /usr/bin/X11/startx 1029 1 S 0:00 xinit /home/davidw/.xinitrc -- 1032 1 S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/davidw/.xinitrc 1033 1 S 0:00 xclock -geometry 164x164+975+2 1036 1 S 0:05 fvwm 1037 p0 S 0:00 /bin/bash 1993 p0 S 0:04 pine 2224 p2 S 0:00 telnet efn.org 2320 p1 S 0:00 /bin/bash Well, if you've made it this far, thanks:-) Obviously this is more for my own knowledge than a pressing problem, so pointers to sources of relevant information would also be appreciated. Thanks, David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.efn.org/~davidw Se quest'email e` in Italiano, mi dispiace per gli errori:-) FORZA PANTANI! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]