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Keeping Unix Running and Tuned 225 Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sat Feb 29 17:01:34 I was started to get really ...

226 System Administration Fortunately, very experienced sysadmins (those with a healthy disrespect for Unix) can win the battle. ...

Disk Partitions and Backups 227 swapped out, no doubt). Spiffy. So I used that king of high perfor- mance featureful debugging t ...

228 System Administration system because the boot process will clear out all the crud that accumulated in the /tmp directory. So ...

Disk Partitions and Backups 229 frequently tripling or quadrupling the tape used for backups. Another addi- tional cost of runni ...

230 System Administration disk pack.) According to Andy Tannenbaum, “If Unix crapped on your rk05, you’d write to Dennis for ano ...

Disk Partitions and Backups 231 A similar problem happened four years later to Michael Travers at the Media Lab’s music and cogn ...

232 System Administration One can almost detect an emergent intelligence, as in “Colossus: The Forbin Project.” Unix managed to ...

Disk Partitions and Backups 233 Putting data on backup tapes is only half the job. For getting it back, Berke- ley Unix blesses ...

234 System Administration for each kind of tape drive interface available, yielding names like /dev/mt, /dev/xt, and /dev/st. Ch ...

Configuration Files 235 lucky, whitespace. If you choose the wrong separator, the program reading the configuration file will us ...

236 System Administration (Unix NetSpeak is very bizarre. The vocabulary of the statement “the dae- mon, which is supposed to se ...

Configuration Files 237 I use Solaris 2.x. Turns out the version of RCS we use around here is kinda old and doesn’t run under So ...

238 System Administration When somebody running on an HP tries to check out a file, it crashes the machine. Panic, halt, flaming ...

Maintaining Mail Services 239 mented. All the tasks listed above should be simple to comprehend and per- form. Another hidden co ...

240 System Administration Where Did I Go Wrong? Date: Thu, 20 Dec 90 18:45 CST From: Chris Garrigues <[email protected]> ...

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12 Security Oh, I’m Sorry, Sir, Go Ahead, I Didn’t Realize You Were Root Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science. —Da ...

244 Security Security Is Not a Line Printer Unix implements computer security as it implements any other operating system servic ...