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Problems with our Web PageDJ GregorIn February our web page grew from 1MB to 12MBs. This flurry of growth caused some unforeseen problems. The web server has a umask of 077. When one un-cpios a file as a user [non-zero id] the inbound files' chmod settings are overwritten by the umask. Instead of taking on the characteristics of the outbound file they are that of the umask. Hence, our directories and files that we updated became locked. We found the solution of setting the umask before the cpio -i solved the problem: SCO's offering of free UNIX?Andy Phillipswww.sco.com. Free license, $20 if you need media. No downloads available. It is the single user, Desktop version of the operating system, but it comes with tons of stuff. I believe it is the retail version, except for the license! I never have a problem on name brand equipment, but it sometimes gives me fits on EISA clone machines with bad DMA or strange BIOS. You'll find the file structure a bit strange. It is SVR3, but files are linked all over the place into different structures, like /etc/bootpd will actually be something like /var/K/version/blahblahblah/etc/bootpd. Maybe they're trying to make it conform to some standard or SVR4. More exciting for SVR4 oriented people though is that UnixWare will also be available soon for free. It is pretty much the definition of SVR4 and preferred by OEMs like Unisys and NCR. The X Windows environment is also more friendly than SCO's. |
UNIX System AdministrationJames D. Corder
What separates the SAs and above from the Jrs and bellow is the ability
to manage a medium scale network [150+], the large scale [1,000+] to the
giant [10,000+]... I think that anyone can see that the needs/skills of
the SA are different between these networks. There are more complex problems
on the larger networks. Moreover, smaller networks don't need the higher
level of SAs...
The 3 year old Nephew"Billy what did you do?" "I pass Gas." "Why?" [a slight pause why he contemplated his answer] "Because that is what my family does." |
Chief Logan's Exploring Lock-InThe ScouterAttention all Explorers and friends. There will be a lock-in on Saturday, March 8, 1997 at the Chillicothe Swim & Racquet Club. The administration starts at 8:00 p.m. and the event will last until 8:00 a.m. the next morning. Cost will be $10.00 if you pre-pay at the scout office prior to March 1st, or $12.00 if you pay after March 1st or at the door March 8th. Post 38 and 48, who are sponsoring this event, predict it will be a lot of fun! This party is just something for all of the Explorers in this area to get better acquainted. Pizza will be ordered around midnight and pop will be supplied. Activities will include: basketball (5 0 5 tournaments), racquetball, tennis, football, euchre tournaments, volleyball tournaments, and toilet papering adult chaperones that fall asleep. Bring a sleeping bag at your own risk! All equipment must be supplied by anyone attending this shin-dig. Chillicothe Swim & Racquet Club will not supply any rackets or balls unless rented by the individual. Keep in mind this is coed, and one should act accordingly. In case of road closures due to bad weather, listen to radio stations B94- Chillicothe; 96.7-Vinton and Jackson County, and 97.9 Columbus, for info on the Lock-in. It will be escheduled. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Josh Szarek at 775-4895. There is also a map attached for all of you naviguessors. A joke I heard...David Van SandtI got this joke from a friend... it's kinda cute. There was an engineer, manager and programmer driving down a steep mountain road. The brakes failed and the car careened down the road out of control. Half way down the driver managed to stop the car by running it against the embankment narrowing avoiding going over a cliff. They all got out, shaken by their narrow escape from death, but otherwise unharmed. The manager said "To fix this problem we need to organize a committee, have meetings, and through a process of continuous improvement, develop a solution." The engineer said "No that would take too long, and besides that method never worked before. I have my trusty pen knife here and will take apart the brake system, isolate the problem and correct it." The programmer said "I think your both wrong! I think we should all push the car back up the hill and see if it happens again." |
Scouting CyberSpace JamboreeJames D. CorderScouting CyberSpace Jamboree 1 was held in Columbus Ohio March 27 1993. Scouting CyberSpace Jamboree 2 was in Columbus Ohio 1994. The World Scouting CyberSpace Jamboree WSCJ 1, Columbus, OH & Perth WA 1995 The CyberSpace Jamboree on CompuServe began as part of the first Scout Show in the new Simon Kenton Council [Columbus, Ohio USA] Some 15,000 Scouts and Scouters in the Ohio Valley where coming together to celebrate the future of Scouting and the "new" council... Several Older councils merged into one. The theme for the Scout Show saw Scouting, the bridge to the future. Truly we did not expect the response that we received: We set up a 30' x 70' booth with 12 PCs connected to CompuServe and Sun Sparc Stations with full Audio/Video Tele-Conferences. The CompuServe Explorer Post was so new that the DCSC Post had to assist in the operation of the First CyberSpace Jamboree. CompuServe's Post is strong now:-) Many Explorer Posts where in attendance: AT&T, Bettel's... It was an electronic flurry of Posts:-) LCI had free long distance calls around the world to other Scouts. Sun MicroSystems had free video Conferences through the InterNet AT&T showed UNIX... There where about 70 Explorer Posts there:-) The event was GRAND... The usage of CompuServe was to be just in the Outdoor Forum. However, it went bigger than that. When Scouts around the country heard what we where doing... They all started to join in. The line to use the CompuServe booth was several hours long... The second CyberSpace Jamboree was planned to go national, it went global. The third was the first we planned on going global... Therefore, we called it the 1st WSCJ. In fact we only made 137 patches... We thought that would be enough. The WSCJ was held in two cities: Columbus Ohio and Perth WA. When Senator John Glenn heard that Scouts in Columbus, Ohio and the City of Lights Perth Australia he asked if he could join in. Of course the answer was yes:-) We opened with Senator John Glenn, followed by the Governor of Ohio Followed by the Premier of WA:-) We where in over 150 cities around the world. We know of 14 countries... It was bigger than we expected:-) |
The Value of a FriendJames D. CorderAs many of you know, I just got back from a 24,000 mile round tip to Australia.
While there I met a several people that I now call my friends.
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