| 2012/9/20-11/7 [Computer/SW/Unix, Finance/Investment] UID:54482 Activity:nil | 9/20 How do I change my shell? chsh says "Cannot change ID to root."
\_ /usr/bin/chsh does not have the SUID permission set. Without
being set, it does not successfully change a user's shell.
Typical newbie sys admin (on soda)
\_ Actually, it does: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 37552 Feb 15 2011 /usr/bin/chsh
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| 2012/5/8-6/4 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54383 Activity:nil | 5/8 Hello everyone! This is Josh Hawn, CSUA Tech VP for Spring 2012.
About 2 weeks ago, someone brought to my attention that our script
to periodically merge /etc/motd.public into /etc/motd wasn't
running. When I looked into it, the cron daemon was running, but
there hadn't been any root activity in the log since April 7th. I
looked into it for a while, but got lost in other things I was
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| 2012/2/9-3/26 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54305 Activity:nil | 2/9 Reminder: support for mail services has been deprecated for *several
years*. Mail forwarding, specifically .forward mail forwarding, is
officially supported and was never deprecated.
\_ There is no .forward under ~root. How do we mail root and how do
we get responses?
\_ root@csua.berkeley.edu is and always has been an alias.
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| 2011/9/14-12/28 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54172 Activity:nil | 9/12 We've restored CSUA NFS to something vaguely resembling normal
functionality -- plus, with some luck, we should now have something
vaguely resembling normal uptime, too! Ping root@csua.org if you
notice any problems. --jordan
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\_ Oh, and http://irc.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU is online again.
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| 2011/6/5-8/27 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:54127 Activity:nil | 6/5 In an effort to stabilize our services, we'll be rebuilding parts of
the CSUA infrastructure over the course of this summer. To give us
some wiggle room, I've temporarily decreased soda's allocated RAM from
8GB to 2GB. If you need to run something that requires large amounts
of memory, please send mail to root@csua.org and we'll try to
accommodate your request. --jordan
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| 2011/4/27-7/30 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54096 Activity:nil | 4/28 Will wall be fixed? - jsl
\_ What's wall?
\_ An anachronism from a bygone era, when computers were hard to
comeby, the dorms didn't have net, there was no airbears, and
when phones didn't come standard with twitter or sms.
\_ A non useful implementation of twitter.
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| 2011/5/19-7/30 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54110 Activity:nil | 5/19 Uh, is anyone still using this? Please mark here if you post and
haven't added this yet. I'll start:
\_ person k
\_ ausman, I check in about once a week.
\_ erikred, twice a week or so.
\_ mehlhaff, I login when I actually own my home directory instead of
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| 2010/12/13-2011/2/19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53978 Activity:nil | 12/21 Help, all my files are owned by nobody! -ausman
(yes I emailed root)
\_ Things should be fine now. As usual, the NFS server caused a cascade
of errors.
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| 2011/11/16-12/28 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Computer/HW] UID:54230 Activity:nil | 11/16 We'll be taking all CSUA machines offline in the near future for a Soda
Hall server room reorganization (we're being moved to a neighboring
server cabinet). Downtime will hopefully be minimal. --jordan
\_ Thanks for all your work keeping the machines running! It's
been awesome having soda actually working again.
\_ Update: this is tentatively scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
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| 2011/8/9-27 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:54162 Activity:nil | 8/9 So I just found out that an old college friend of mine lost her
four month old daughter to SIDS. What is the correct response here?
\_ "Did she sleep with her belly?" and "Did you breastfeed?"
\_ try this joke:
How do you make a dead baby float?
˙ʎqÉq pÉÇp ÉŸo sdooÉ”s oÊʇ puÉ É¹Ç\
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| 2012/8/26-11/7 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54465 Activity:nil | 8/26 Poll: how many of you pub/priv key users: 1) use private keys that
are not password protected 2) password protect your private keys
but don't use ssh-agent 3) use ssh-agent:
1) .
2) ..
3) ...
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| 2012/8/2-10/17 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:54450 Activity:nil | 8/2 How do you guys like Mountain Lion 10.8.1 so far? Should I wait
for 10.8.2 before upgrading?
\_ I went from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion on my mac mini. I haven't
really noticed anyting different.
really noticed anything different.
\_ mostly refinements of 10.7, for example, integration of iPhone
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| 2011/9/14-10/25 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54173 Activity:nil | 9/13 Thanks to Jordan, our disk server is no longer virtualized. Our long
nightmare of poor IO performance should hopefully be over. Prepare for
another long nightmare of poor hardware reliability!
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Just kidding! (I hope)
In any case, this means that cooler was taken out back and shot, and
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| 2011/5/9-7/13 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:54106 Activity:nil | 5/4 Any thoughts about apple switching to ARM for all machines?
\_ Could only have happened if the Mac App Store had been a wild, wild
success, and they were willing to give up Steam. Games/dual-booting
is strategically valuable to not driving people away from macs.
A new ARM iOS based device, or opening the Apple TV to iOS apps
(same thing, really) would be much more likely than sabotaging their
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| 2010/1/22-30 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53655 Activity:high | 1/22 looking to buy a new development laptop
needs ssdrive, >6 hr possible batt life, and runs linux reasonably
Anyone have a recommendation? Thx.
\_ thinkpad t23 w ssdrive and battery inplace of drive bay
\_ Ever wondered what RICHARD STALLMAN uses for a laptop? Well,
wonder no more!
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| 2009/11/13-30 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53523 Activity:nil | 11/12 How does one find out if a system has rootkit installed?
\_ Unix or m$?
\_ Unix. On M$ I always assume it's compromised.
\_ Install Tripwire before you plug your server into The Net?
The only other answer I can think of is to reinstall the
OS from scratch on another server and do an md checksum
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| 2009/10/24-11/3 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:53465 Activity:nil | 10/24 Should Windows 7 be really called 6.1 instead, given that there are no
big new features over Vista?
\_ If you have to measure iPod by feature, then it really blows
compared to what M$ has to offer. Only stupid PMs value
a product by the number of features out there.
\_ Even the "ver" and "winver" commands in Windows 7 say the
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| 2009/10/25-11/3 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53468 Activity:nil | 10/24 I have an usb device with 2 functions (tablet and flash). Windoze
can detect both but mac can only detect the tablet. Why and is
there a way to fix it? (bootcamp/virtualization do work too, but
I am asking for a pure os x solution)
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| 2009/8/27-9/9 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53304 Activity:nil | 8/26 Any suggestions on a good OCR program for either OS X or Windows that
will work on scanned documents outputted to pdf? Preferably free?
Thanks, scottyg
\_ Check Abbyy or Scansoft. Not free.
\_ Thanks...I think I'd prefer a free or opensource piece of
software unless there is a huge difference in quality. I
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| 2009/9/1-9 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53317 Activity:nil | 9/1 How do I get Alpine to stop flashing in OS X terminal?
\_ Time the interval it flashes at and blink out of phase.
\_ I did this and now I fail to acknowledge turn signals while
driving. Should I stop?
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| 2009/8/6-14 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53250 Activity:moderate | 8/5 Why is Mac OS 10.6 $29 and 10.5.6 $129? Is it a typo?
\_ $29 for existing users.
\_ it doens't even support ppc does it.
\_ who cares about ppc anymore? Everything is Intel based
\_ I have a PPC mini at home that I use.
\_ I have a quad core G5 ppc.
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