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|    Eric Renfro to Tony Langdon    |
|    Re: Linux Daily?    |
|    29 Jul 19 22:19:09    |
      TZUTC: -0400       MSGID: 122.fido_linux@1:135/371 21a4df97       REPLY: 909.fido-linux@3:633/410 21a37ee9       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Jul 26 2019 GCC 4.8.5       TID: SBBSecho 3.08-Linux r3.122 Jul 26 2019 GCC 4.8.5       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: SlyEdit 1.67 (2019-07-21)        Re: Re: Linux Daily?        By: Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro on Mon Jul 29 2019 08:58 am               ER>> Well, back in the SUSE 5.0 days, there was this one annoying thing        ER>> it had, which did deter me from it for a LOOOOOONG time.               TL> I think my issues were more to do with package management, I didn't like        TL> the package management system, found it more clunky than either Yum or        TL> Apt.               Well, you're possibly confusing package management with repository management       in that. yum, dnf, zypper, apt, apt-get, .... Are repository management tools,       while the actual package management is rpm and dpkg, between those two specific       ones.                ER>> And when I checked the process lists, there was something running:        ER>> rm -rf / which had a parent pid of the NFS servers.               TL> Ouch! :-( Yeah I rarely ran NFS servers, and never exported /.              Exactly. That's why I didn't use SUSE for a loooooooooong time after that. :)       ===       )))[Psi-Jack -//- Decker]       --- SBBSecho 3.08-Linux        * Origin: Decker's Heaven -//- bbs.deckersheaven.com (1:135/371)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 14/6 15/2 18/0 103/705 116/116 123/0 25 50 115       SEEN-BY: 123/120 150 755 135/0 300 366 371 377 379 153/7001 7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 154/30 40 700 203/0 221/0 6 226/17 227/114 201 400 229/275       SEEN-BY: 229/310 354 426 452 616 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 261/38       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 340/800 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250 3634/0 12 15       SEEN-BY: 3634/24 27 50 119 3828/7 5020/545       PATH: 135/371 300 3634/12 154/10 280/464 229/426           |
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