I added a bit to /etc/profile a couple of days ago to set the EDITOR environment variable to /usr/bin/jstar.... that was the problem. I don't know WHY that should be a problem, but removing is has cured the malady. (Now - how do I use jstar as the default editor?) Ray Olszewski wrote: <snip> > Why are you running mDNSResponder? Try disabling it from runlevel S > (just remove the symlink to its init script in /etc/rcS.d, or change the > starting S to NOT) and see if it helps. You may have to disable nifd as > well, since it appears to require nDNSRresponder. I guess I'm running it because it got installed with everything else when I installed FC4.... I'm still weeding out things I don't need - the problem is knowing what those things are. > Final thought ... what did you change recently? If this behavior is new, > it probably results from your having made some change since the last > successful boot/init. See above. I'm back in business. Thanks. -- -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
