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You might checkout this site (http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man4/rhosts.4.asp). -mk

I found a work around by adding the line "Debug::NoLocking" to /etc/apt/apt.conf. This allowed me to do the upgrade. I also found out about this bug...

I've got a strange one. As root, in aptitude, I'll do an update successfully. Then I do an upgrade, the files download, the progress bar will not show total progress, just progress per file, then...

You might try something like:

ls -l | grep -v drw | wc -l

This should list all files within a directory while skipping directory names. -mk

Depending on the browser you used to download, the file may have already been unzipped during the download, but didn't alter the file to reflect this. You might try renaming the file from...

Why aren't you using SAM to add new users? -mk

In crontab, you must specify the complete path to the file you wish to run, or a PATH variable needs to be set -mk

setenv PATH $PATH:add_path1:add_path2
-mk.

I stand corrected. Thank you Perderabo. Sorry for the mis-info, ho_k.. -mk

I know you asked for UNIX commands, but for those that have the same question for Linux, try Linux Manual Pages (http://www.linuxjournal.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-help&file=man).

mget allows you to use wildcard characters in file names, then asks whether this file is the one you want. mget/mput is just a somewhat semi-automated way to transfer multiple files with one...

I would also like to add that when you do get your crontab file back, you cd /var/spool/cron/crontabs. The files you see in there are the crontab files currently running, one per cron user, i.e....

You edit /etc/lilo.conf. In it you change the default=Linux entry to the lable name you use for Windows, like default=Win98SE or whatever. -mk

Uning the kill command with the signal of 9 is a dangerous way of terminating a process. The 9 signal is an absolute and unblockable form of termination. This means that if a process has, for...

OK. Let's go at this from another direction.

If you type:

who am i

you wil get a response like:

root pts/0 Apr 10 03:53 (:0.0)

pts0 is the terminal window I typed the 'who...

Before re-installing anything, I'd go into single user mode and run fsck on all partitions. -mk

I could be wrong here, but it looks like all the time servers that you've selected to use are rejecting you for one reason or another. Could you post your /etc/ntp.conf? -mk

You might try 'man ntpd' or look at NTP Howto (http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntpfaq/NTP-a-faq.htm). -mk

In your example 'ps -ef | grep netscape' resulted in:

sskb 2430 2429 0 22:55:51 ? 1:35 /usr/local/netscape/netscape
sskb 2508 2507 0 23:14:39 ? 0:09 /usr/local/netscape/netscape

In the first...

Thanks allot, Edog. I'll check it out. -mk

Does anyone know of an AIX command that gets cpu type, speed and number of processors? TIA -mk

touch a_new_empty_file.txt

will create a null file, or will change the last_access_time on that file.

> the_file_I_want_nothing_in.txt

will both empty a full file or create a null file. -mk

How about:

grep csh /etc/passwd > filename

I think that's what your were asking. -mk

Try:

grep `whoami` /etc/passwd

-mk

One other thing to think about is, if you're LVM/VG, you should look into, I think it's called vgbackup, so that on a restore, you can recreate your logical volumes. -mk