[CentOS] startx reboots my computer

[Ted Miller]

 > Somehow
> startx2 got renamed or copied to startx (probably fumble fingered me typed
> the trigger key with the gun aimed at my foot).  Since all that is in that
> file is
> 
> startx -- :1
> 
> it was starting itself like crazy, didn't even take a new shell, because it
> is on the path before the "real" startx.
> 
> Now I will reboot into that machine, and see if I did anything else to
> shoot myself in the foot.

So far so good.  I am up in Xwindows on the new install, typing away in 
Thunderbird.

Thanks for the help.  I'll save my next request for another day.

Ted Miller