anandshan said:
I got a linux redhat 9 tailored by one of the tech-magazines.
Which magazine? Is it PCQ Linux ?
anandshan said:
The Installation was slow and the Os also seems to be slow.
Installations are always slow as extraction of packages from CD-ROM takes a lot time. But it depends on you configuration also. Slow OS can be attributed on lots of daemons running on ur system. Try disabling some daemons that run unnecessarily (like apache, sendmail... actually all of them except GDM / KDM / XDM)
anandshan said:
Where can I get the original Redhat 9 in chennai.
Check up with firewall. He has posted a thread in this section itself.
anandshan said:
Also how to end programs running in background in Linux.
You have to
kill the process.
If you know the name of the process, you have to manually kill the process by giving
# killall <process name> in a terminal.
Or if you forgot the process name, then give
# ps x this lists all the process running on ur box. The first column lists the process ID (PID) of that process.then you can give
# kill PID to instantly murder that process. By default this sends a TERM(inate ) signal to it. check
$ man kill for other options.
Killing a background process is strictly not recommended if u dont know what you are killing. However, if there is some daemon that is troubling you persistently, then try removing its entry from
/etc/rc.boot/ , /etc/rcS.d/ & /etc/rcX.d/ where X = 0 to 6. these are symlinks and can be created again using a utility like
# ntsysv
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