On Wed, 26 Jun 2003, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > hi! thanks for your effort. i've two minor problems here. > > ok. so this is the first time i've run x - i've been strictly > commandline up until now. i thusfar have only used it for gimp, > crazy-addictive evil tangrams, & mozilla, & i anticipate this being the > case forever. long live CLI! it's a p3-600 running debian 3.0r1, kernel > 2.4.18; i'll be happy to give any other information required, including my > cup size. har! > > anyhow, x is oddly crashy & i do not know why. if i'm logged in & > using x, it's fine. if i'm logged in & i switch ttys away from it for more > than five or ten minutes, it gives my syslog: > gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 > input condition is: 0x10, exiting > & restarts. if i'm logged in & i leave it idle for five or ten minutes, it > restarts. if i do not log in, but come back to it five or ten minutes after > it's been sitting there, it restarts before letting me log in. > > i wonder if it's trying to go to a screen saver or something which > it isn't finding. i know too little about how x works, & thus haven't been > able to find information in my extensive .doc, howto, & groups.google > searchings. > > second issue: i have NO idea if this is related, but it'd be swell > if someone could tell me what this "-- MARK --" crap in my messages log > is, & how i can make my new box stop doing it at :10, :30 & :50 on the > hour. there's nothing in crontab. > > thanks, cats. you each deserve oral sex. > > lish > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
For your second problem, edit /etc/init.d/sysklogd and on about line 14 there should be a line which looks like: SYSLOGD=" " change to SYSLOGD=" -m 0" That will disable "mark" for ya. Its a timestamp in case your system crashes you will know what time it crashed. -- Arthur H. Johnson II, [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: bytor4232 YIM: arthurjohnson IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
