Hal Burgiss wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Ok, maybe it's my fault, that I didn't realize that the damn thing was
> >  going,  once scheduled, was going to run, every night, without my
> >  knowledge, and update (in their opinion) my system.
<snip>
> Its your system. Take control of it, and don't blame your lack of
> understanding on someone else. Unlike MS which gives you little
> control, Linux gives you the tools to take total control. Learn to use
> them. 

Oh, I know that. The first thing I did when I saw this was 
> sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/up2date

Still, it was that it did it every night. What finally got me to realize it 
was when quanta, which I re-installed from 7.3, worked...and then croaked 
later that night.

        mark

-- 
"The legitimate powers of government, extend to such acts 
 only as are injurious to others. But it does me no
 injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or 
 no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
  -- Thomas Jefferson





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