Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread wizard111
Ever heard of hardware failure such as a HD going south? Does the same thing, eventually the OS hangs and begins running properly again on disk access. The final end is when it hangs forever due to not finding a sector to read or even report the error to... > In general, if you're using a stabl

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread wizard111
FIRST do an e2fsck on your drives, perhaps you have a bad HD that has a spreading corruption (read; bad part of the media that's spreading (surface "sluffing", was a rather common problem with conner HD's back before Seagate bought them out). Second, re-verify your init.d files, make certain th

Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?

1999-12-13 Thread wizard111
MY idea of a big upgrade is having a kernel that supports my AAA- 133 card. TOTAL waste being in an NT terminal server... :/ > Emily, whose idea of a big upgrade is actually having a modem that works __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE I

Re: [techtalk] Samba question

1999-12-13 Thread wizard111
Your smb.conf file would probably help a bit. However I've noticed that windows 9X tends to not "see" network machines at times, and continues to no notice them. But to be certain that it's not win9x misbehaving (as usual), check if you can browse the linux box from the NT machine that you're

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-12 Thread wizard111
Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system. FIRST check your daemons, make sure something isn't running that SHOULDN'T be. THEN check to make sure that what IS running is the proper file (replacement of a valid program with a trojan). THEN check your outbound mail for something that shouldn't be