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From: ccs013@castor.ucdavis.edu (Jason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Hidden daemons and strange games processes.
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Date: 13 May 89 20:58:03 GMT
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I have recently acquired and  installed a version of Mtrek (2.1) on a Sun.....

Everything works fine. But, 

about 2 nights ago, people started telling me there plasma torps were not coming

up on the screen. I looked and looked and could not find a thing. No hidden

files or bkgrnd jobs/processes.  I also realized a few other things: bouys,

mines or anything else interactive did not work.  So I erased the game, went

back to my source and re-installed the whole thing.  It was still messed up.

So someone re-booted the machine  ( a Sun 3/280 ). That worked. However, after a

while of playing all the above got screwed again.  So we tried it on a different 
machine; it was ok and then eventually screwed up too.

Besides bad interaction (I believe its a daemon problem) the daemon  keeps

running; however, I cannot find it's process.  The only clue I found is, when

I logged in on 2 different terminals, ran Mtrek on one and searched processes

with the other, instead of ' ps -aux ' giving me simply ' mtrek ' it said

'  /  (mtrek)  '    and a second time,   '   d  (mtrek)  '.   I've been working

like mad to find the answer to this problem? Any ideas? 

The only problem on fixing is: the software that I have is archives of object 

files, not original source code.   HELP! 


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