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I've looked around for a bit and I still don't get it.

How can I find out how much memory a specific process is using.

I usually run pmap -d PID and look at the writeable/private at the top and...

How can I find out "exactly" what the process is doing?

For example, if I have a script or application (such as app server) that seems to be hung, how can I find out what it's doing...

is there...

ratsaw was right on the money with



We killed the program and it went right down to 6% :)

I've never seent his before...

1. We had a partition that was 100% full.
2. We removed approx. 10 files which were 2GB in size
3. The partition still said 100% for about 10 minutes
4. The...

any idea what package this might be... I'm totally clueless right now and googling hasn't help out much.

I installed an application (Joomla) on my laptop. It's a russian version. Works great. I installed the same app on a Centos machine. Russian characters don't show up.

I've tried looking at the...

I have a process that runs... and hangs.

Is there a way to find out what the process is actually doing? What it's stuck on?

I've read about sending certain signals but can't seem to find the...

I have a development server that I've been using for some years now. The other day, it just stopped responding to requests from the outside world (this machine sits on my DMZ). I was able to log...

that's the thing... what I see in fdisk right is not what I saw when using disk druid...

normally, I thought that fdisk would only show what existing partitions there are, I'm trying to create...

When installing FC4, I used Disk Druid to manually partition my hard drive because automatic didn't give it to me.

As it stood when I began to partition my disk

/dev/hdc1 - NTFS
/dev/hdc3 -...

Is it possible to allow a nonprivileged user to start a service that makes use of a port < 1024 without using sudo...

I have an older HP tape drive, Colorado 14GB, the tapes say Travan Data Cartridge and it's connected via parellel port.

I'd like to try and use this, but have no clue as to where to start. I've...

Unfortunately setting PS_PERSONALITY= linux did not do anything...

This user functions just fine, it's just that a certain process hangs (java process) so we're looking at this as a possibility. ...

cuzcontrol:x:578:578::/home/cuzcontrol:/bin/bash

I have a user, let's call her userA.

Whenever I start a process with userA, and do a ps -ef any process that she owns only shows her UID as owner of the process and not her username. Why is this?...

Thanks for the explaination. Something to remember when throwing shell scripts into CRON.

thanks for the reply. the problem was that my path different when running CRON. It was failing on a command to jmeter (which was calling java and assuming it was in my path) so I just emailed myself...

I have a shell scripts which emails a result to myself.

If I run it manually, everything is fine
when I run it from CRON, the file executes, but the variables are not set/saved, except for an...

SuSE provides AOL for DSL connections, but these are not US servers... they're for the UK.

Steps I take are

1. Open Yast
2. Create DSL connection
My main question is what is the provider...

Well I've been hacked....*shrug*

Almost everything was already backed up so I can restore it easily.... (I know how they got in and none the back ups contain the problem)

All I need to do is to...

I'm trying to an application that uses auto replying via aliase pipes...

e.g.

inside of /etc/aliases
support: "|path/to/a/perl/script"

It's not working...So I figured I had to test the...

Well, my jerk answer is:

If the administrator has a problem leaving a root shell logged in, perhaps he/she doesn't deserve to be an administrator. A good administrator would understand certain...

thanks, but no...

Sudo should never ask you for the root password... well that's of course if you're not running SuSE :)

Sudo is used to grant nonprivileged users access to privileged...

thanks!!!

I never noticed that it does say

Ask for the password of the target user i.e. root

I guess I'm just used to RH and Debian... don't think those have a targetpw option by default.
...

# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

#...