SOS! my LInux box is self destructing! (long)

[M. Peck Dickens]

On Saturday 09 March 2002 15:50, you wrote to me:

> Hopefully someone can shed some light on what is going on here.

A few years ago I has something similar happen to me on an RS/6000 running 
AIX R4.5. As I recall, (Not necessarily the same in Linux), there were some 
entries in the configuration/boot scripts that were automoronically inserted 
into some of the AIX configuration/boot scripts by the scripts that 
controlled the remote X session... I had customized the machine before I did 
the remote X thing. When the scripts that control the remote X session ran, 
the machine configuration was hoarked (Beyond anything resembeling something 
I would want to recover) by the entries that were inserted by the remote X 
session scripts. 

I've got to go into work today for a few minutes... While I'm there I'll look 
for the log book to the machine that got hoarked by the remote x session. 
It's been 3-1/2 years or so, but the log book should be there even though we 
traded the machine about a year ago: We never throw log books out... 


Best


Peck