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In article <3vrguc$ga6@navajo.gate.net>, Chad Irby <cirby@news.gate.net> wrote:
>Joe Sloan (jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote:
>: Chad Irby <cirby@news.gate.net> wrote:
>: >You don't have to sit at a machine to use it.  If there are processes 
>: >running that are supposed to do things, then it's being used by someone.
>
>: Yeah, if you think "bin" and "daemon" are "someone"...
>
>Oh- so you run those processes, leave them up, and never use the friggin' 
>computer for anything else?  "Don't touch it!  That's the bin and daemon 
>machine- nobody ever gets to use it!"

This is getting tedious again....
daemon processes run round the clock, and need to be running, whether or
not people are "using" the machine...

>Oh?  Then you're USING THE DAMNED MACHINE, aren't you?
No, I'm at home, maybe asleep... maybe email comes in for me, maybe for
someone else, maybe no email arrives that night... How could I possibly
predict whether email will arrive?

I hereby invite you to accept defeat and back out gracefully - 

>If there are no users and no jobs running, then it's not a computer- it's 
>a space heater.

On a unix machine, there are always jobs running, much like the human brain.

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 Joe Sloan     jjs@engr.ucr.edu   http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
     Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux...
 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!