We had intriguing problem related to a Unix-based directory. This directory was mapped to Windows via Citrix. On the Windows side, the initial thought was that the folder was simply "hidden" via the attributes, which would be normal. However,...
Topics: .attribute^ file, citrix, invisible directory, unix commands

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To setup an anonymous FTP account, you might consider using the ftpconfig script. It seems to be a lot easier to setup an anon FTP account with Solaris 10 than it was for Solaris 8. The anon users log in and then they are given restricted access to a...
Topics: anon ftp, anonymous ftp, FTP, unix system adminstration

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About two weeks ago, my colleague and I had an issue with the /var partition on a seldom used Sun Blade 2500 workstation. Frankly speaking, I thought a simple fsck would suffice while in single user mode. Not quite. Anyway, we executed fsck on the...
Topics: /var/spool/mqueue, inodes, no space left on partition, no space on /var, ran out of inodes

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Late last night (KST), I was reviewing my free MyBlogLog stats and noticed 8 visitors had stopped by the blog. Usually, by that time, mysysad would have had several hundred visits. I surfed over to the domain and verified it was down (this blog is hosted.
Topics: changed IP address, ip address changed, mysysad blog

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A couple of days ago a colleague sent me this interesting number, 142857, via email. I performed a Google search on the number and I was surprised to see so many returns - 159,000 . It even has its own wiki page. For additional information, here is the...
Topics: 142857, cyclic number, cyclic permutations

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