Hi Jen

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Hi all, When I came in yesterday morning my box had done some form of crash. Couldn't telnet in, keyboard wouldn't respond, nothing. Two questions:

1. why would this happen? (answer 42 or fish?)

Was an X session running at the time ? Network interface crashed ? XServer Lockup can render a machine locked solid - mine used to stop rigid, loop the last millisecond of an MP3 file I was playing so it sounded like a bad dream - and nothing would happen. X in an infinite loop? Never did get to the bottom but a little tweaking of XF86Config seems to have fixed it.

2. I have to re-enter all the network card stuff manually

insmod rtl8139 route add network stuff restart samba daemons etc etc each time the box restarts...a).why doesn't the rtl8139 module get discovered automatically (it is in etc/modutils) and b)can I add all this stuff to a startup script in debian?

do you have the modules.conf entries for rtl8139 ? if you have them then whenever networking is brought up modprobe is able to start them. Shouldn't the modules reside in /lib/modules/<version>/ ? The daemons should be started by init. under /etc/init.d/ there should be a script for each of the daemons you want started sometime or other. Under /etc/rcN.d/ (where N is the runlevel) there should be a symlink to files in the init.d directory. (man init should help).

(Three questions cleverly disguised as two)

Three suggestions cleverly disguised as answers. I know that better answers will be forthcoming anyway so I'll be quiet now. Cheers Earl [earl.brannigan@lindenhouse.co.uk] www.lindenhouse.co.uk Intellectual : Someone who can spend a whole day locked in a room with a tea cosy without once thinking of trying it on. Highbrow : Someone who can listen to the entire William Tell Overture without once thinking of the Lone Ranger.