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From: bruce@balilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: date & time at top of screen
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.020441.4048@blilly.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 91 02:04:41 GMT
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In article <9102060058.AA11602@xuucp.ch.apollo.hp.com> mja!aramini writes:
>Lately on my 3B-1 with 3.51 software the part of the line of text at the very
>top of the screen where the date and time are usually displayed, there instead
>will be a strip of stippled background pattern.  [ ... ]

smgr's window...

>In addition to the date and time disappearing, when that area of the display
>turns into a stippled pattern, the envelope icon doesn't come up when I have
>e-mail.

Also an smgr function...

>Can anyone shed some light on what may be going on here?

smgr died.

>Is there something I can do to bring the date and time back when it disappears
>that is less drastic than rebooting?

Type:
/bin/su root -c /etc/smgr
and type in the root password at the prompt.

Next step is to figure out what is killing smgr...

	Bruce Lilly		blilly!balilly!bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM
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