| I had a process that was pre-pending by design its PID to a file name string. But unfortunately, it caused a few unexpected problems when this handling process inadvertently terminated. I had to... | |
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| Yesterday, we were trying to run a couple practice exams via CD to prepare for a security based certification. However, our normal players didn't support the required file format. As usual, it was... | |
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| Occasionally, I'll download an image file and want to see what is on it, or make a few changes to it before burning it to CD.The image file (dd, iso, etc) can be mounted using the loop device. You... | |
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| We had a hard drive (FC) mismatch and had to rebuild the path_to_inst file and/dev/rdsk/*,/dev/dsk/* and/dev/rmt/* directories. We had two drives (but the backup drive was inoperable), so instead... | |
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| We had some users complaining about not being able to switch or substitute user, su. Here is the error message they were receiving: "su: no shell.? At first I thought the users had inadvertently... | |
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| I know this topic is not Unix or sysadmin related, but I thought I'd document it for reference. This morning one of our personal home computers was inadvertently powered off while an iPod was... | |
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| A few days ago, one of our remote Citrix workstation users reported a login issue. Here was the error message displayed on the client interface."Your account is configured to prevent you from using... | |
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| Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. As SysAdminDay puts it, it is a thankless job for 364 days. You do not receive a lot of attention when things are going well. But when things do go... | |
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| We were trying to limit the number of regular users who could use xterm or cmdtool for security reasons. A user-defined group was created and admins/non-regulars were assigned to it. Unfortunately,... | |
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| I thought James Dickens of UNIX Admin Corner wrote a short but interesting post a few days ago. His post was titled "Why is IT such an Island." It was something to ponder regarding the rapidly... | |
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