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[Matthew Avery]

I think my first mailing of this question didn't get through
so here it is again.  I thought about installing RH 4.x on 
top of the current broken system in the hopes it would fix
it.  Any thoughts?  Thanks in advance.

-Matt-

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Thanks to all who answered my question about the bootserver
and diskless clients.  If I get this setup up and running
I will post a description of the process. 

On to a new question:  I'm getting pretty concerned that 
my nameserver machine is going to crap out any day now
unless I fix it soon.  Among the wierd stuff that is 
happening to it:

At one point it trashed the swap space for no apparent
reason and I had to redo it.

It does not appear to completely run through the scripts
in rc.d on bootup.  I have to manually run one of the
scripts to get sendmail and a bunch of other daemons up
and running.

It appears to be running multiple copies of some daemons
and I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be doing this.  This 
could be from running the boot script manually.

It is slowly eating up disk space (up to 89% capacity now)
I assumed this was from system logging that I had turned on
so I deleted the syslog file (~9Mb) but when I checked the
disk space again using "df -k" it didn't register any change.
I issued "update" and "sync" then "df -k" again and still no
change in available disk space.

I'm not an expert at system administration but I get by so
I would be extremely grateful if someone could tell me what
system logging options to turn on (and how to do it) and
how to diagnose and repair these problems.

I did a manual upgrade from a Slackware installation (3.0?)
to kernel 2.0.27 and I *THINK* I got all the packages I
needed (like the new procps for instance).  From the 
boot problems I'm now thinking that I maybe didn't upgrade
the SysVinit or something.  I have no problem with reading
documentation or even buying a book if necessary. 

Thanks in advance for your help.

-Matt-

The following is the output from "ps -ax":

  PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
    1  ?  S    1:14 init [5]                  
    2  ?  SW   0:00 (kflushd)
    3  ?  SW<  0:00 (kswapd)
    4  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
    5  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
    6  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
    7  ?  SW   0:00 (nfsiod)
   12  ?  S    2:12 update (bdflush) 
   32  ?  S    0:00 sh /etc/rc.d/rc.M 
   35  ?  S    0:02 /usr/sbin/crond -l10 
   49  ?  S   11:36 /usr/sbin/syslogd 
   51  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd 
   55  ?  S    4:38 /usr/sbin/inetd 
   56  ?  S   43:46 /usr/sbin/named -d 1 -b /etc/named.boot 
   84  ?  S    0:02 /usr/sbin/crond -l10 
   98  ?  S    1:23 /usr/sbin/syslogd 
  100  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd 
  104  ?  S    0:04 /usr/sbin/inetd 
  107  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/routed -g -s 
  109  ?  S    0:00 (lpd)
  112  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd 
  114  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd 
  120  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind 
  127  ?  S    0:04 sendmail: accepting connections                            
  136  ?  S <  0:00 /root/netrek/bin/listen -p 2591 
  138  ?  S <  0:00 /root/netrek/bin/listen -p 2592 
11647  ?  S    0:00 update (bdflush) 
11661  ?  S    0:00 update (bdflush) 
12998  ?  S    0:00 in.telnetd 
12999  p0 S    0:00 -bash 
13010  p0 R    0:00 ps -ax 
22226  ?  S <  0:10 xntpd 
   53  ?  S    0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap