> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, apologies for pressing send on my email program too soon (see previous > > message). And million thanks to everyone who contributed with their ideas. > > > > The problem is now solved (wait, there is the next problem). I followed the > > strategy of disabling services and re-enabling them. Now I found the > > offending > > service (or one causing this behavior). That is the good news. The bad news > > is > > that it is DEVFSD. > > > > Ok, I am an end-user, I am trying to use my Linux box purely as my desktop. > > Reading the "man" on devfsd left me very confused. Could I just leave > > devfsd > off > > (sounds like not so good idea). Or should I do something about it to get to > the > > bottom of it? Any thoughts? > > > > Saku > > I find it strange that THAT would be the offending party in this saga; > you could, however, turn the service off and see if it directly affects > anything that you do as a "desktop" user - as well - being that this is > merely a client machine (or desktop) are there any other services > running that you might not need?
I found the following (so someone else had the same problem, with 10.1 Community): http://quanta.homeip.net/pipermail/linuxr3000/2004-November/000745.html I did what he did, installed udev (not sure that I need either one of them) and run that at startup. Everything seems to be working ok. So in case of if anyone is interested the list of services that I run at startup is: alsa, atd, crond, cups, hotplug, keytable, kheader, network, ntpd, numlock, partmon, postfix, rawdevices, shorewall, sound, sshd, syslog, udev, xfsd and xinetd (this according to drakconf). I think I need all of them: I have my uses for sshd and postfix. I am not sure that I need rawdevices, but I can live without finding that out. Thanks! Saku
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