[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 13, Issue 13

Thu Jan 8 12:49:58 CST 2004

Yes, having /dev/null normally is used for standard error.

cheers and regards,
Rudy Avila

UNIX Systems Administrator

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>    1. Re: @#$%^&*! redhat up2date!!!!!
>    2. Re: protecting /dev/null from miswritten redirects. (Chris Cox)
>    3. re: protecting /dev/null from miswritten redirects.
>        (Kyle Davenport)
>    4. Samba Password Aging (Kenneth Loafman)
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> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:22:18 +0000
> From: clayramsey1 at comcast.net
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] @#$%^&*! redhat up2date!!!!!
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> I 1nstalled about 3 weeks ago using some RH 7.3 CDs I horked from a pal of mine.
> 
> <grrrumble>
> > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:49, Clay Ramsey wrote:
> > 
> > > and why am I as a humble RH7.3 user being hosed like this?????
> > 
> > hosed like how?  They've only said for the last 8 months or so they
> > weren't going to support 7.x, 8.x, 9.x anymore.  
> > 
> > They gave users three options:
> > 
> > 1) Migrate
> > 2) Write it yourself
> > 3) Buy the Enterprise Edition
> > 
> > > and since I am being given the the ole M$ shakedown, where can I go to 
> > > get up2date "done" and pay a subscription (call me greedy - I don't 
> > > think one should pay for updates like this)
> > 
> > One comes instantly to mind: 
> > 
> > http://transition.progeny.com/
> > 
> > 5 bucks a month per machine starting May 2004.
> > 
> > Or move to Fedora.
> > 
> > Or shell out for the enterprise edition of RH.
> > 
> > Or just move to debian and don't care what RH does.
> > 
> > > </rant>
> > 
> > It's a little late to be ranting - this has been public for quite some time.  
> > If you just installed yesterday, then yeah, you got a gripe.
> > 
> > But you also did no homework.
> > 
> > Ry
> > 
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> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:43:02 -0600
> From: Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] protecting /dev/null from miswritten redirects.
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> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> > How does one protect  /dev/null from being accidently overwritten by command
> > output?  Yes it's a self inflicted would but I'm tired of the infliction.
> > 
> 
> Tricky... what command is being used to overwrite it??
> Are you sure the command isn't removing it and then
> replacing it??
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> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:16:47 -0600
> From: "Kyle Davenport" <Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com>
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> Subject: re: [NTLUG:Discuss] protecting /dev/null from miswritten redirects.
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> From: "Richard Geoffrion" <ntlug at rain4us.net>
> > How does one protect  /dev/null from being accidently overwritten by
> command
> > output?  Yes it's a self inflicted would but I'm tired of the infliction.
> >
> > Suggestions?
> 
> That's kind of funny.  It's there for files to "overwrite"!   But maybe you
> mean instead something like what happened to me recently.  A new rpm
> installed in an old Redhat system actually replaced this device with a
> file, and I didn't notice till I rebooted. Booting up, some commands are
> outputting to /dev/null while the filesystem is still read-only (ok if a
> device, error if a file), causing a boot failure.  Very irritating and took
> me a while to resolve.
> 
> Kyle
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> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:36:11 -0600
> From: Kenneth Loafman <ken at lt.com>
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> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Samba Password Aging
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> Samba version 2.999+3.0cvs20020906-1 for Debian
> 
> Somehow the Samba password is aging and is requiring a reset once a 
> month for *one user only*.  I can't see anything in the manuals to 
> indicate that the passwords age, so how is this one doing it?
> 
> The user is on a Windows 2000 box if that makes any difference.
> 
> Plus, with the new *.tdb format, how do you see what users are there?
> 
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
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