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| Answerman 200311 The Answer Crew take us on a tour of file permissions, file management and shell programming. Answerman: Using The Command Line, part 2 of 2 (Czaplinski, Grzegorz) 200310 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask Grzegorz Czaplinski. Answerman: Shell history overview (Czaplinski, Grzegorz) 200309 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask Grzegorz Czaplinski Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200308 Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200307 The Answer Crew reply to more questions from the mailbag. Answerman 200306 The AnswerCrew answers several reader submitted questions, including how to rename many files with a simple tool called mmv and how to build custom kernels under FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200305 The Answer Man pokes his head through the bottom of the mailbag... Answerman 200304 Gary Kline and his AnswerCrew take on seven questions that readers have sent in, including how to write a basic rc.d script and connecting via PPTP using MPD. Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200303 This month: Old Compaq machines, OS X Office Applications support, a newcomer to the Land of Weird Hardware, terminal servers, and SIGCHLD déjà vu. Plus: the mailbag reaches a new level of weirdness... CRLF issues on Win2K's FTP mount support. Bye, Bye, Mr. Answerman Pie (Kline, Gary) 200302 I've been struggling with this piece for the past several weeks... have gone through a number of opening paragraphs. So far, I can't seem to come up with an appropriate way of saying what needs saying. This looks like an occasion to just stay it straight out. The even-month Answerman column is probably coming to an end. Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200301 This month, the Answerman looks at: user mounts, cable modems, more on the portupgrade answer from last time, diskless clients, the 2002 Year-End Round Up, and more! Answerman (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers, Dirk) 200212 A few miscellaneous questions on some pretty widely varied areas within the general Berkeley Unix umbrella. Plus what we know that everyone this side of Mars has been waiting for: Yes, the Year 2002 Answerman Archives!!! Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200211 In this month's Answerman, we have a pack of answers to the last mailbag question, and a pack of new mailbag questions... and a stack of little new questions in between. Answerman (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers, Dirk) 200210 This month, we've got a grab bag of tuning tips and tricks, in no particular order, including notes on tuning your kernel. Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200209 No column this month... Maniac that I am, I volunteered for two conventions this year instead of just one. If you are near New York City and see this in time, check us out: http://www.axny.org Answerman (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers, Dirk) 200208 Here are several interesting Q's and A's as we step into late summer north of the line, late winter south of. (Anyone living directly on the equator can ignore this.) This time, David Leonard gives his thoughts on the twm window manager; soon (AKA: RSN) Gary Kline is planning a brief show and tell about twm's brother, ctwm. If any of the BSD siblings decide to throw in X11 as a default perhaps one of these lightweight WM's will be the default. Just a thought, people, just a thought. Your AnswerTeam is comfortable with the CLI, coding in straight hex, and chewing nails for snacks. Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200207 Hey! Mister Answerman is on vacation this month, running the Registration counter at Anime Expo (http://www.anime-expo.org). Come on by and see all the BSD machines in action! Answerman (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers, Dirk) 200206 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men, Gary Kline, David Leonard and Dirk Myers. Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200205 The Answer Man dives into his mail bag to solve even more problems. This month: floppy-disk boot managers, FTP and NTFS in BSD, web-ifying 'passwd', and more! The Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers, Dirk) 200204 This month we bring you a column on tuning your BSD system to best suit your needs and wants. Obviously, because everyone has different requirements, there may well be myriad different ways to tweak your system. If you run more than one machine you may wish to tune each differently. Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200203 This month we have a bunch of short ones. List of Topics I know a compiler that lets you get away with typedef tricks. FTP plus NTFS equals corrupted file. Help? How do I shut off telnet to prevent it being used for break-ins? Can I put a web interface on top of the passwd command? Why is it so hard to get into the BIOS configuration of a laptop? Why do some serial port programs suck and others don't? Um, what is the permeability of steel? Mailbag: Questions I didn't get to, or didn't have a clue about. The Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Myers, Dirk)(Leonard, David) 200202 Greetings, salutations, and New Years best from your faithful Answer Team. This column addresses its usual wide variety of questions. Most are directed at the newer BSD user...but even long-time users are not current on the hows and whys of using grep. Or would rather not invest the hour or two to figure out how to get locate updating its database daily instead of weekly. If you understand the difference between the cua and tty /device files, then you may be well ahead of the majority of us BSD'ers. We make no pretense at being profound; instead we attempt to answer questions and de-mystify the idea that "Unix is so impossibly hard that it is only for the hard-core nerd". The Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200201 Topics This time Include: Answerman (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers, Dirk) 200112 Happy December, fellow BSDers. This month, in addition to the annual archive for the year, we're offering five seemingly trivial questions. --Trivial if you don't know the answer at any rate. How can I use ftp to transfer an entire directory? What's the deal with file-descriptor handling in the Bourne shell? Where, oh where are the imap-uw man pages!! How can I tell if a manual page came with a package I just installed? I can't find it anywhere. Where are the /etc/skel files in OpenBSD, please? As we are about to venture into the new year, here's wishing all BSD users--who are the best and the brightest--sincere wishes for a peaceful, productive 2002. Answerman (Whitesel, Todd) 200111 Last column's mailbag has been crushed by a withering barrage of answers from our readers. This time Todd takes on questions like: "How do I save my screen arrangement for the window program?", "I'm trying to get taylor uucp working on Mac OS X, help!", and "Tracking down culprit of spurious dialing with ppp -demand." Help, I've Fallen: Who's Afraid of the CLI? (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers, Dirk) 200110 There are ways of solving problems that call for some serious C or C++ coding, or maybe just scripting with /bin/sh or perl; and then there are equally good solutions that use the strengths of the toolset included with Unix by default. In case you think solving a particular problem means having to write a script, we are going to show you how to use some of the power tools that come with your BSD operating system. Hey! Mister Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 200109 Dragging your feet back to school edition: We've got a good mixture of answers and questions this time around, class, so open your laptops to a new document and let's get started, shall we? Answerman (Kline, Gary)(Myers, Dirk)(Leonard, David) 200108 Welcome back! This month we scare, titilate and automate you. Several questions to help you get comfy with the BSD family this issue. These range from forwarding root's mail on host1, host2,...hostN to one convenient account to the worthiness of rdate, to the leading ways of making your system crack-proof. (--Okay, if not crack-proof, then crack-resistant.) Help I have Fallen (Whitesel, Todd) 200107 Pedantic goggles for your compiler. Strange CD-ROM setups. Mounting ISO 9660 on FreeBSD. Network Interfacing. Wetware Interfacing. Help, I've Fallen (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(, Dirk Myers) 200106 Discover the mysteries of find! See how to suspend a job, even when you no longer have the shell from which the job began! Peruse the painless (well, more or less) method of switching from csh setenv to /bin/sh (or ksh, bash, zsh) exports! Study up on the exciting world of security! And more... The Answermen will tweak, turn, and tune your knobs this month. Help! I've Fallen (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers, Dirk) 200102 With the February, '01 issue of the ``Help, I've Fallen'' column, we have several more of the frequently asked questions in BSD-land and our best answers. We begin the new century with a reprised question from the very first column in September, '98, touch upon some Linux and BSD comparisons, and discuss a safe way to experiment with any of your configuration files. Answerman : Hey! Mister Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 200101 Are you receiving syntax errors with PPP dialup, and thinking your password is causing the problem? Or perhaps you're having difficulties communicating to your Linux box via NFS? How about taking a breeze through the mailbag, maybe you could help answer one or two for us! After that, take a quick breeze through this author's answerman columns of 2000. Help! I've Fallen (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 200012 This month, the Answermen take a look at xterm defaults, passive FTP, limiting core dump size and more. Answerman - Hey! Mister Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 200011 Through cold season, and buggy motherboard chipsets, and unreliable superstore memory modules, your intrepid Answerman forges onward... Answerman - Help! I've Fallen (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 200010 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men, Gary Kline, David Leonard and Drik Myers. Hey! Mister Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 200009 Ever wanted to configure that BSD laptop for more than one network connection? How about configuring an OpenBSD firewall, or getting that Sound Blaster card working? It's all here in this months Answer Man. Answerman: Help, I've Fallen! (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 200008 Perl, text editors, df, shells, and more... Thrills and chills as the Answermen show you around a land that isn't Kansas any more. Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 200006 Ever wonder what xhost, ps and crontab have in common? This month's Answer Man column of course! Hey! Mister Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 200005 What's in this months mailbag? Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David) 200004 It seems no matter how many FAQ's there are, some questions continue to get asked. In this issue Gary and David answer some more questions that seem to frequently poke their way into the lists. Hey! Mister Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 200003 The lions may come, and the lambs may go, but your questions just keep marching on... The Answer Man: Help, I've Fallen (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David) 200002 This month we're discussing Time-and-the-single-computer. Hey! Mr. Answerman! (Whitesel, Todd) 200001 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men. The Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 199912 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men, Gary Kline , David Leonard and Dirk Myers. Hey! Mr. Answerman! (Whitesel, Todd) 199911 A bunch of quickies this month. Let's get to it, shall we? List of Topics * Why do I have to set a netmask of 255.255.255.255 when I use an IP alias? * I want to use the wheel on my wheel mouse. * Do you have any newbie-level resources for setting up the IP Filter 'ipf' ? * How do I get NetBSD to remember my ifconfig settings? * Why does make reject '$(shell blah)' in this makefile I'm porting to BSD? * What's in this month's mailbag? Answerman (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 199910 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men, Gary Kline, David Leonard, and Dirk Myers. The Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 199909 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? This month: TASCII and ye shall receive. The Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 199908 Got questions? We've got answers... The Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 199907 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men. Answerman (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 199906 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men. This month: Why shouldn't I run as root all the time? How can I remove a strangely-named file? How can I change my login banner? How can I go from multi- to single-user mode? Here are a few general shell aliases ... The Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 199904 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men. The Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Leonard, David)(Myers,Dirk) 199902 The Answer Men take on the task of rebuilding a kernel. The Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 199901 Your questions, our Answer Man. What a wonderful world. The Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Myers, Dirk) 199812 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men, Gary Kline and Todd Whitesel.This month "suing" to root, changing your name, and more. The Answer Man (Whitesel, Todd) 199811 System limits and getting them set where you want them! The Answer Man (Kline, Gary)(Myers, Dirk) 199810 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men, Gary Kline and Dirk Myers. Answer Man #1 (Kline, Gary) 199809 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men, Gary Kline and Todd Whitesel. Answer Man #2 (Whitesel, Todd) 199809 Have a question on how something works or why something isn't working? Ask one of our Answer Men, Gary Kline and Todd Whitesel. |
