Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:24 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 27/03/2007 hora 16:54: > > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be > > > put on a server?" > > Realy good question... > >...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 16

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-28 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 27/03/2007 hora 16:54: > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be > > put on a server?" > Realy good question... >...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 160 Servers! That's a shame. There are some slick rackable displays,

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-13 12:51:48, schrieb Tarek Soliman: > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on > a server?" Realy good question... ...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 160 Servers! Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadmini

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-13 12:51:48, schrieb Tarek Soliman: > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on > a server?" ROTFL - Please forward this question to RedHat or Novell Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network D

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-17 Thread s. keeling
Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > > > > > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month > > > > when you have multiple commands on a line with && between them, it > > Damn, so this is just a cheat, as the actual command i

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:16:46AM +0200, Atis wrote: > [snip] > >> >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > >> > > >> >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month > > [snip] > >when you have multiple commands on a line with && between them, it > >executes them sequentially

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:24:21PM +0800, li sh wrote: > 2007/3/16, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > >> > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month > Little tips, every month's 28 is enough. isnt it . >

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread li sh
sorry,28,29,30,31 :( 2007/3/16, li sh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2007/3/16, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month Little tips, every month's 28 is enough. isnt it . ---

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread li sh
2007/3/16, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month Little tips, every month's 28 is enough. isnt it . --- lish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread s. keeling
Daniel Graham Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:28, you wrote: > > If a server is a machine, then you can do so, but you probably don't want > > to since it consumes system resources for tasks that are not core to the > > server. > > How so? If it's not being put to usef

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/15/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:26:25PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > >Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something > >like this: > > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Atis
[snip] > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month [snip] when you have multiple commands on a line with && between them, it executes them sequentially as long as none of them fail, IOW so long as they return 0. the [ ... ]

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:26:25PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > >Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something > >like this: > > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month > > >

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something like this: 00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month I didn't know it was possible to put this kind of thing (the output of a command) in crontab. I search

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
> > > > On of my favorite: > > Q: How does the correct crontab entry looks like to run a script only on > > the last day of every month? > > Very very interesting! > > * * * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > It is basically a command that runs everyday checking if tomor

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:36:12PM -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: > > Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about > > Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can > > get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more > > confident I will b

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Daniel Graham Palmer wrote: [snip]. I don't believe in "rules" but instead "sensible explanations". People have this Slashdot mentality where their solution is *the right way(TM)* whereby they instantly chastise anyone that thinks differently. Frankly, if you're going to emp

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:28, you wrote: > If a server is an application, then you can't put a window manager on it. Hence the speech marks around the noun server. > If a server is a machine, then you can do so, but you probably don't want > to since it consumes system resources for tasks tha

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:28, you wrote: > If a server is an application, then you can't put a window manager on it. Hence the speech marks around the noun server. > If a server is a machine, then you can do so, but you probably don't want > to since it consumes system resources for tasks tha

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Bernd Prager
> Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about > Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can > get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more > confident I will be. > > Please also post tricky and troubleshooting questions. On of m

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Soliman wrote: > I apoligize, the question was not serious. The correct answer is none. > My intention was to make a joke or two. (and see how many people fall > for it) Thanks for the clarification. I guess I'm actually learning something :-)

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Daniel Palmer wrote: Why not put a windowmanager on a "server" ... to me a server is an application not a machine. If a server is an application, then you can't put a window manager on it. If a server is a machine, then you can do so, but you probably don't want to

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Palmer
Tarek Soliman wrote: "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on a server?" OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct answer "none" ? That was a serious question on my part: what is the correct answer to Tarek's questi

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
> >>>"What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on > >>>a server?" > > > > > > OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct > > answer "none" ? > > That was a serious question on my part: what is the correct answer to > Tarek's question? I wa

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-14 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Hyslop wrote: > Tarek Soliman wrote: > >>>"What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on >>>a server?" > > > OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct > answer "none" ? That was a serious

OT: Bunny’s way to world domination (Was : Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions)

2007-03-14 Thread Mathias Brodala
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Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-14 Thread Atis
On 3/14/07, Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q) In the CLI, how do you rm (remove) a file that begins with a hyphen ? > > A) rm -- --oops > Wasn't there a similar horror story where a program would save a directory as .* or *. or whatever, and then rm -R .* would expand to .. among othe

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
> Q) In the CLI, how do you rm (remove) a file that begins with a hyphen ? > > A) rm -- --oops > Wasn't there a similar horror story where a program would save a directory as .* or *. or whatever, and then rm -R .* would expand to .. among other things, nuking the parent folder too? -- Tarek

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Mike McClain wrote: On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confi

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 00:05, Mike McClain wrote: > On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about >> Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can >> get a big list of q

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Mike McClain
On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about >Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can >get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more >confident I will be. > >Please also post trick

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 19:09, Pete wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:43:35AM +0200, Atis wrote: >> On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about >>> Debian? May be with short answers but th

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:43:35AM +0200, Atis wrote: > On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about > >Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can > >get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answer

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:51:17AM +0800, Bob wrote: > > If choice is our greatest asset (which it is) it's also the greatest > hindrance to GNU/Linux adoption on the corporate desktop. > > Can you see an elegant way out of this paradox? > I can see where choice can be perceived as a hinrance t

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Bob
Tarek Soliman wrote: Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confident I will be. Please also post tricky and troubleshooting questio

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Pete
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:43:35AM +0200, Atis wrote: > On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about > >Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can > >get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answer

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Atis
On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confident I will be. Please also post tricky an

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
> > So I ask: Is debian the only distro that sows the seed of CLI? I'm > > talking about having a "server" type computer, not a desktop. > > Slackware. > Really? A slackware server in a corporate environment? Interesting -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 16:09, Tarek Soliman wrote: >> Tarek Soliman wrote: >>> "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on >>> a server?" >> OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct >> answer "none" ? >>

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread David A. Parker
Tarek Soliman wrote: Tarek Soliman wrote: "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on a server?" OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct answer "none" ? I was gonna say "Tell that to Redhat and ORACLE UNBREAKABLE LINUX" but I real

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
> Tarek Soliman wrote: > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on > > a server?" > > OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct > answer "none" ? > I was gonna say "Tell that to Redhat and ORACLE UNBREAKABLE LINUX" but I realized I d

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:39:42 -0400 Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > "What are four lowercase letters that are not legal flag arguments to > > the Berkeley UNIX version of 'ls'?" > Four letters... hmmm... do they spell a naughty word? :-) e, j, y, and z (for FSF / GNU ls)? Just ba

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Soliman wrote: > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on > a server?" OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct answer "none" ? > "What are four lowercase letters that are not legal

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
> > Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about > Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can > get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more > confident I will be. > > Please also post tricky and troubleshooting questions. >

OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-04 Thread Deboo ^
Hello, I have some Sysadmin interviews coming up soon, so I thought the best place to ask for some sample Linux questions would be this mailing list. Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can ge