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Justine Humphry (justine@arch.apana.org.au) wrote:
: Would this still be the case after I have reformatted the hard drive and
: reinstalled a new kernel?? Surely I would of got rid of some tampering (if
: that was the case) by doing this or not? 

If you format over the top of any introduced security holes - they are gone.

: That is exactly what does seem to happen mind you after I run a free
: command regularly after boot up - the memory - all 24mb seems to diminish
: gradually until I reboot and then it's OK again?
: 
: Besides tampering, what else could this relate to ?

This is _not_ evidence of tampering.  Linux uses a dynamic caching 
mechanism.  It grows/shrinks to use ram efficiently in the system.
People still occassioanlly claim there is a memory leak as 'free' ram
has gone away apparently.  In fact most of it is in the cache.  Get a recent
procps suite (1.01a) to get a better look at the use of ram in buffers/cache.
I'd say your problem is a h/w fault with the keyboard controller, given 
what u have said.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway, email: s316674@student.uq.edu.au
                     WWW: http://student.uq.edu.au/~s316674
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