On 20020223 Martin Mačok wrote: >On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:16:21PM -0800, garrick wrote: >> KDM actually handles all of those face icons surprisingly well. > >> I can disable it in the KDE Control Center, and I see the changes >> made to /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. But somehow that feature keeps >> getting reenabled when I reboot. Perhaps there's a particular >> package I can uninstall? > >msec is doing that job (and I don't know why). Either uninstall it >(and uncomment PATH line in /etc/profile) or setup it to not do it (I >don't know if that's possible) or delete /etc/cron.*/msec symlinks and >make sure to do it everytime you upgrade msec or initscripts or after >running msec by hand. >
That way you kill all msec periodic checks. Easier: --- /usr/share/msec/msec.py.orig Sat Feb 23 15:13:02 2002 +++ /usr/share/msec/msec.py Sat Feb 23 02:07:57 2002 @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ set_shell_history_size(-1) allow_root_login(1) enable_sulogin(0) - allow_user_list(1) + allow_user_list(0) enable_promisc_check(0) accept_icmp_echo(1) accept_bogus_error_responses(1) But that is just a workaround, it will be needed to check exactly what msec is doing... I will try to find time to take a look. -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.18-rc4 #3 SMP Sat Feb 23 12:44:46 CET 2002 i686