Subj : Re: Admin email
To   : DieselMan
From : Deuce
Date : Tue Aug 23 2005 03:53 am

  Re: Re: Admin email
  By: DieselMan to Deuce on Tue Aug 23 2005 03:31:00

 > I did a powerdown of the box last night and i am not having the problem
 > anymore. My system checks security and several other things every hour and i
 > problem exists. It's supposed to send me an email. And it had been doing it 
 > i min after the hour for about 1.5 days. But i had been away from the comput
 > a lot and hadn't noticed it. I do remember trying to load/run a couple of
 > programs that just never loaded about 1.5 days before the problem was
 > discovered. lrssi and bitchx where the apps. they just never even acted like
 > they tried to load. Maybe it had something to do with it. What is "Top"?
 > My machine is a 900mhz amd 512ram. Mandrake 10 and i run blackbox. And all t
 > is running other than services is SBBS and it's servers. I will wait and see
 > it occurs again. I'll run a man top here in a minute and see if i get any in
 > on top. I don't have any servers or even email setup on this box. Drivers,
 > security cron and required services are all.

It's hard to say what caused it after a reboot.  top is a spiffy program that
is rather like the WindowsXP task manager... only less so.  Bascially, it gives
you a good idea as to what processes are eating the CPU.

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