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On Wed, 8 May 2002, Tiny Human Ferret wrote:

> Beartooth wrote:
> >
> >         Recently, whenever I boot up -- and often when I
> > give some command -- the computer makes fervent whirring
> > noises, and keeps the little red light either blinking fast,
> > or on continuously (perhaps there are blinks so fast I can't
> > see them), but without doing anything visible.
>
> Well --
>
> once you get it up and running, try the following:
>
> ps auwx
> 	Will let you know all of the processes running, as a rule.

	OK, first step: looking through the output shows that a
whole bunch of the ones with higher numbers all involve things of
the form:

[...] --sm-config-prefix /[....]

-- but surely a configuration is something you set and then let
be? (at least till you think of another setting)

	For a while, my initial startx was getting me a window
designed to take some sort of configuration; I made it go away, I
thought by closing it.

	Do I want to make it refrain from starting all these
--sm-config-prefix processes? If so, what is a way I can follow
to do that?
--
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
retiree & linux greenhorn w/RH 7.2
Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.