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pmap gives a lot of info about memory usage for a process.

Fork again. Keep the child process running. When the original process exits, the child process will keep the grandchild process in a zombie state when it exits.

Otherwise no, there's no way to...

What model Exabyte is it?

Some tape drives will tell you when they need a cleaning, many won't. If not, you should clean it after a certain number of uses, depending on the type of drive. (Or...

Tape drive error.

You have an Exabyte tape drive?

*Might* just be a bad tape.

The Noisettes - Don't Give Up:

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Pistol Valve - Treasures:

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The rack my computer is in was in the computer room scene of Jurassic Park, so.... that.

Also, I provided a bunch of old computer equipment for the "1976 NASA Lab Scene" in a movie that's coming...

Given those error messages, and the fact that you've tried replacing the controller, I would try:

Replace the GBIC on the disk side.

Replace ssd21. It might be failing in such a way as to screw...

bash

I used csh when I first started with *nix (this was on a VAX-11/750 when BSD4.3 had JUST been released)

Switched to my own shell for a few years, then bash with my modifications.

When I...

Desktop 1:

Sparcstation-5 (170 Mhz)
TGX+ graphics (1600x1280)
diskless
OpenBSD

Desktop 2:

Panasonic Toughbook CF27 (300 Mhz P-II)
Linux

Firewall:

Sparcstation-5
OpenBSD

Main...

A single dot refers to the current directory, so:

$ rm ./-annoying-file.txt

also works.

I use xv. You can find it for Solaris 8 / SPARC here:

Freeware List for SPARC and Solaris 8 (http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html)

psrinfo -v lists the CPUs.

echo doesn't know math. You want "expr".

Solaris sh is *fine*, and all your shell scripts should be
written for stock sh.
Put your "then"s on a line by themselves:
if [ blah blah blah]
then
blah blah
else
blah blah
fi...

At various times in the past, I have written, and used on a
daily basis, my own text editor, shell, and mail system. None
of them were released to the public, but writing them taught
me an immense...

PomaH 6yxDAK: Diamanda Galas
YES! The Sporting Life is amazing. She has one other album I
really like, "The Singer". And everything else is rather...
unlistenable. Impressive, but... (I saw her...

Solaris feels like a mainframe OS. It's really sophisticated,
but somewhat mysterious. You can't casually reconfigure things
as easily as a Linux or BSD system. But it's *really* sophisticated....