Re: Re[3]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 00:22, rikona wrote: As I understand it, Ctl+Alt+Backspace is supposed to stop X, but it does not stop according to the remote terminal. I tried 'kill 1452' to get rid of X, and that wouldn't stop it either. A 'kill -9 1452' apparently killed the machine. Reboot time.

Re: Re[3]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:07, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 00:22, rikona wrote: As I understand it, Ctl+Alt+Backspace is supposed to stop X, but it does not stop according to the remote terminal. I tried 'kill 1452' to get rid of X, and that wouldn't stop it either. A 'kill -9

Re: Re[3]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 07:17, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:07, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 00:22, rikona wrote: As I understand it, Ctl+Alt+Backspace is supposed to stop X, but it does not stop according to the remote terminal. I tried 'kill 1452' to get

Re: Re[3]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:41, Adolfo Bello wrote: Ain't it all the more easy to login via telnet or ssh from another machine and just kill the offending process(es)? Or is that too easy? Right. It is too easy. Now seriously. Rikona was talking about killing X and the best way that I

Re: Re[3]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 11 Jun 2003 21:56:24 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyways, REAL linux users don't use XWindows anyways. Complete waste of space. Complete waste of resource. Using a mouse for anything other than a paperweight is a useless operation with nothing but bad things to come out of

Re: Re[3]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 22:32, Charles A Edwards wrote: But I can't watch my porn unless I use XWindows lynx just doesn't cut the mustard Good point, Charles. You win. -- Wed Jun 11 23:05:00 EST 2003 23:05:00 up 4 days, 8:56, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.10

Re: Re[3]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 07:56, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I reckon I understand, but isn't starting a system in runlevel 3 and killing X two different things?? Unless I've really really missed something here... For sure, the one missing something here is me. I thought that switching from run level 5

Re[3]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-10 Thread rikona
Hello rikona, Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 8:12:58 PM, you wrote: r Got it working, and now looking through the 'back door' from a Win r machine. Well, stellarium crashed the screen again! This time, though, I can see (via ssh top) that everything is running happily on the machine, even stellarium,