[H-GEN] debian box do solo restarts.

[Nikolai Lusan]

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Mark Venz wrote:

> I have a debian box which (I'm guessing) tends to restart after periods of
> idleness.
No, it shouldn't restart after idleness, it shouldn't restart unless it
is power cycled or you tell it to.

> If I'm logged in and am away for a length of time (over two hours) I come
> back and I'll be looged out.
Sounds like you are running something like logoutd or some piece of
software that will kill your session (shell or otherwise) after a
configurable length of idle time.

> > What do I have to check to find out what's happening? (if I'm not just
> losing my mind)
Try running ps to have a look at what programs are running and stopping
anything that looks suspect.

> A second question:
> How can I turn services I don't need off.
> Things like the printer deamon, apache ... and what ever else is happening
> behind the scenes I don't need.
remove the symlinks that start things within the init structure
(/etc/rc?.d) to stop them starting at boot time, or use update-rc.d to
do it. To stop them without a reboot run the scripts in /etc/init.d with
the stop option (i.e. /etc/init.d/apache stop).


Nikolai

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