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Forum: AIX 05-25-2013
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Another recommendation for nmon. Learn the...
Another recommendation for nmon. Learn the hotkeys in it and you can get a wealth of info, including process memory usage. svmon, however, is more purpose-built for your desired use, and is endorsed...
Forum: Programming 10-31-2012
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Posted By zer0sig
You could run grep progname * in any directory...
You could run grep progname * in any directory containing scripts that are written, where progname = the script that gives that exit. The program that called it will use the $? construct, if it is...
2,013
Posted By zer0sig
Take the parentheses away from $(mainscreen) -...
Take the parentheses away from $(mainscreen) - the parentheses are trying to execute a command called mainstream.

Mainscreen is not defined in the script.

Also looks like you need to chmod +x...
Forum: AIX 10-31-2012
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Posted By zer0sig
Are these errors showing up on a console or in...
Are these errors showing up on a console or in system logs? Most Unix systems I have worked with will log page errors to /var/log/messages by default. I usually can see the device or get a PID that I...
4,762
Posted By zer0sig
Only equipment I've been able to get its own...
Only equipment I've been able to get its own power usage from has been telecom carrier equipment (SS7 switches to be exact) - it is certainly not standard on most unix machines I've used, though some...
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Posted By zer0sig
You could try poweroff (or halt -p). Equivalent...
You could try poweroff (or halt -p). Equivalent of the BSD shutdown -p. Should power any machine that understands the system call to power down.
Forum: What is on Your Mind? 07-06-2012
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Posted By zer0sig
There's that, there's the portability, it uses...
There's that, there's the portability, it uses less power, and for the average consumer who doesn't have a video game or computer hacking hobby, it's more than capable of performing the tasks most...
Forum: War Stories 07-06-2012
10,712
Posted By zer0sig
animesharma, A lot of us who may be strong in...
animesharma,
A lot of us who may be strong in terms of the quality or speed of technical work that we do are better at handling that than understanding the nuances of office culture. As someone...
Forum: Red Hat 07-06-2012
1,756
Posted By zer0sig
I've found that RHEL gets bound up pretty easily...
I've found that RHEL gets bound up pretty easily when the iSCSI/FCOE storage requests don't come back as expected.
I was building a small CAD cluster last year, and the build was fairly heavily...
16,507
Posted By zer0sig
Good call on the backticks ; I think the last...
Good call on the backticks ; I think the last instance in which I used time for more than one command I was stringing some things together and the backticks were necessary. I still habitually do...
3,463
Posted By zer0sig
I use Avast typically, but there is malware out...
I use Avast typically, but there is malware out there for pretty much any version of Windows that can get around most scanners. I also use SpyBot and to a lesser degree, other spyware scanners, and...
Forum: Hardware 07-06-2012
2,167
Posted By zer0sig
I think you really need to go to newegg or...
I think you really need to go to newegg or another site that sells lots of vidcards, then look those cards/chipsets up against Linux compatibility. There are certainly some that will do well out...
Forum: IP Networking 07-06-2012
2,339
Posted By zer0sig
a> pludi is correct. b> If you explain what...
a> pludi is correct.

b> If you explain what you're trying to do, one of us might have an idea as to how to achieve it. e.g. Is there a certain kind of service you're trying to run? are you trying...
Forum: IP Networking 07-06-2012
2,695
Posted By zer0sig
do you have device bpf enabled in your...
do you have
device bpf
enabled in your kernel?

You can check this with:
strings /boot/kernel/kernel | grep bpf
if device bpf is not in the results, you need to compile it into the kernel.
Forum: BSD 07-06-2012
3,277
Posted By zer0sig
No, but I've used dd to copy a raw image of a...
No, but I've used dd to copy a raw image of a failing drive and was pleased with how much I could recover.
Forum: Linux 07-06-2012
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Posted By zer0sig
There was, years ago, IIRC. Maybe you can get it...
There was, years ago, IIRC. Maybe you can get it running in Wine?
Forum: Open Source 07-06-2012
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Posted By zer0sig
Debian has been my favorite general purpose...
Debian has been my favorite general purpose distro for 15+ years, but I use backtrack more often as it is slick, fast, and I am a fairly security-oriented guy.

I actually prefer FreeBSD for...
Forum: Debian 07-06-2012
3,569
Posted By zer0sig
How are you connecting your notebook to the...
How are you connecting your notebook to the internet?

A great deal of what are referred to as "hotspots" use 3G or 4G wireless connections to cell towers and 802.11 wifi for clients to connect.
...
Forum: Ubuntu 07-06-2012
4,717
Posted By zer0sig
can you ping the machine? Start>run>cmd ping...
can you ping the machine?
Start>run>cmd
ping ip.add.re.ss
tracert ip.add.re.ss

would be a good start, if I understand what you're saying correctly.

If you are running ubuntu and win7, are...
Forum: Red Hat 07-06-2012
6,953
Posted By zer0sig
sounds like a bad shell entry in the passwd file...
sounds like a bad shell entry in the passwd file to me as well.
chsh username is your friend.
Forum: Red Hat 07-06-2012
1,503
Posted By zer0sig
A quick way in Linux and most other SysV-based...
A quick way in Linux and most other SysV-based Unixes to find out which process is holding onto a file that would otherwise be deleted is the fuser command. it even has a -k option though I have...
Forum: Red Hat 07-06-2012
2,576
Posted By zer0sig
If you're running Oracle, that company is...
If you're running Oracle, that company is notorious for wanting things done a certain way. I'd go to their site and see what I could dig up. Never tried to back those up manually, but if you can take...
Forum: Red Hat 07-06-2012
4,681
Posted By zer0sig
For future reference, if anything like this...
For future reference, if anything like this should ever happen again, typing
mount
will give you the info you need to rewrite the fstab. I would suggest never rebooting or restarting after...
Forum: Red Hat 07-06-2012
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Posted By zer0sig
There's a bugzilla report at RedHat for this: ...
There's a bugzilla report at RedHat for this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248488

Looks like there was a change in the default kernel clock config which munged some buggy code....
Forum: Solaris 07-06-2012
4,636
Posted By zer0sig
Sounds like either your sendmail config was...
Sounds like either your sendmail config was borked by the patch or you have zonefiles misconfigured for your domain (if you aren't running your own DNS, this is less likely). I seem to recall having...
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