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You can trace this back with `lsof` using the following: #lsof -l | grep "whatever" #lsof -p PID (whatever the pid of the grep is) #lsof /dev/pts/X (where X is the pts device under the NAME column)

I used to get bonuses from $7,500-$10,000. Then $1,000 bonus. Then, salary cut of 8%. Then, let go (downsized). Then new job of about 8% less than my pay after the first cut. But, 16% less pay is better than 0% pay.

Uh, didn't work: Filesystem 512-blocks Free %Used Iused /dev/hd4 1048576 548432 48% 4715 /dev/hd2 7602176 408672 95% 86888 /dev/hd9var 917504 470288 49% 4620 /dev/hd3 393216 326256 18% 450...

The reason was it had a character (not visable) in front of it, something like: [^filename Whenever that happens, I use ksh and set an array: set -A FILES $(ls /etc) and delete the index: rm ${FILES[2]} Where the '2' is the 3rd file (ksh starts counting at 0).

Speaking of money being wasted - I work for a fed gov't contractor which uses an RS/6000 SP system, however, because some homegrown apps don't work, they attribute this to AIX. Their solution is to go with Sun. Also, the Sr. Engineer in charge of all this, and the one who made the decision to...

typeset -l loginIDx=$loginID # sets var to lower case

They have deskside and rack mount models, but like you, bi, I don't think you can LPAR them.

You would have to refresh inetd.

A standard for large companies is to name them like, a123, a124, etc. Also, a hostname of 'a123' is less of a target than say 'superman'.

CSM is replacing PSSP, but RSCT has been packaged with AIX 5L. Here is a Hints and Tips link that describes RSCT: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/tips0090.html?Open

It is because there are defunct processes owned by init and those not owned by init. The processes you are killing are not owned by init.

And until or if the BSDs or Linux variations make installations as simple as Windblows, for example, when I added xcdroast, an X11 front-end to burn cd's on my BSD machine I had to add a line to the kernel and compile. John & Jane Q. Public are not going to do that, so until simplicity is...

I swear that Microsoft developers have a mantra - let's see what piece of bloated, unstable, security-ridden, useless feature we can add. If the public wasn't so ignorant then MS would have been sued years ago for defective software. My only hope would be for the California class action lawsuit...

CSM is replacing PSSP which is used for clustering nodes. Remove them if you want.

This sounds SO much more difficult than it is on AIX and looks a lot like BSD. Unfortunately, I am going to have to learn Solaris because that is what is being migrated to from AIX.