On Sunday 12 October 2003 05:11 pm, Richard Kilgore wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 04:15:46PM -0400, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > True, but I was really disturbed by a root process that I didn't > > call using 99% of my processor. I'd really like to know what > > called. dialog. > > Ernie, > > dialog is a layer on top of ncurses for interacting with a user > in a console to receive input. Debian uses it for asking > questions about how to configure newly installed software if you > choose it from one of the available alternatives. When you make > a kernel, the make menuconfig may use it (I know it's ncurses). > Have you done that recently? > > - richard
No but I did use ufed to check on some USE flags. I had closed it without an apparent problem. Yup it seems like it might be ufed. It does start dialog but this time it wasn't using up processor -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
