TheBonsai’s Blog

Ha! A rant!

Yesterday someone gave me a link… The 7 deadly Linux commands

It sounded interesting, so I started to read. The whole thing was about 7 ways to (permanently or temproraily) kill a Linux system. I picked 4 below.

I didn’t trust my eyes, not only that the initial article has some really serious bugs, especially the comments are really amazing. That looks like an own “dailyWTF” for administration! Read the rest of this entry »

Schock! Was lernen die Leute eigentlich im Programmierunterricht?

Nichts spektakuläres eigentlich - sowas machen die “coolen Profis” die sich “schon Jahrelang mit Computern beschäftigen” und eigentlich “alles kennen und schonmal benutzt haben” beim Einstieg in Linux immer

Okay, der Fragesteller mag nicht so einer sein, aber viele sind so! Und dann kommt meistens nur Datenabfall dabei raus…

Der Code im ersten Posting muss von mindestens 2 Interpretern/Compilern bearbeitet und vorher mit der Pinzette auseinandergenommen werden…

http://www.linux-forum.de/berechnung-von-pi-20931.html (erstes Posting)

At work, we have Oracle and -related systems on top of SLES10. When you need them to work in a shared environment (e.g. shared NFS disk), the user oracle and the group oinstall need the same user ID on all systems (naturally).

Unfortunately, the IDs of these entities depend on the point in the installation process where you install the SUSE orarun packet, since the UID is generated on the fly. This leads to trouble here and then (nothing serious, but it’s a bit of work to fix such an issue afterwards). Of course I think the installation procedure of the SLES orarun package should use a fixed ID here, but that’s something SUSE decides, not me (it tastes like a bug).
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