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

[Net Llama]

Thanks Peck!  THat wold be excellent if you could check on that for me.

--- "M. Peck Dickens" <peck at dickens.nu> wrote:
> 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...

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