* Kayven Riese <kayve(_at_)itsa(_dot_)ucsf(_dot_)edu> [20010824 05:40]: writing
on the subject 'Re: grep ^kayve: /etc/passwd'
|
| > (Note that NONE of this is within the scope of procmail discussion, but in
an
| > attempt to get him started on the right track...)
| >
| > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:15:09PM -0700, Kayven Riese wrote:
| > > % grep ^kayve: /etc/passwd
| > > kayve:!:31860:31860:Kayven Riese,S M
| > > Ophthalmolo,476.3254:/u7/users/k/kayve:/bin/bsh
| > >
| > > passwd??? ::grunt:: i don't SEE my passwd there.
| > > is 31860 my disk usage? 31 MBytes?
| >
| > <sigh> I'm going to regret this, but...
| > man -s4 passwd
|
| Type "exit" to menus
| % man -s4 passwd
| man: Not a recognized flag: s
| Usage: man [[[-ct] [section]] | [-f | -k]] [-M path] name...
| %
| silly there is no god.. what creates creator? does not compute
| and violates thermodynamics.
|
| the only track i see is that u guys r hEAVILY *#$&@*#&ing with me.. i
| just play along and make u out to be the freeks that ur
|
| umm.. sorry about the byte discussion.. IF that is what u meant by
| that (the world will never *#@&*#&ing know what the *#&@*#& u mean..
| but oh well)
|
| i am not aware EXACTLY how relevent looking at my lamoe bourne shell
| is from all these different angels is.. it smells SORT of right to me..
| the problem with my procmail is something REALLYR REALLY a prioir to
| discusion of recipies.. some permsioon freek NONE of the *#&@*#&
| .forward files do freek..
|
| so i learn procmail? so what?? (this is in reference to the clear
| conspiracy demanding that i DON"T in my assessment!)
| who's to
| say i WONT finally have the
| motivational vision i need to use it to process the ocular ciliary
| body??
|
| for a change.. this freek is MILDLY stimulating ( i mean OT)
| >
| > (and I hope to god AIX uses the same manual sections as Solaris...)
| > If not,
| >
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/files/aixfiles/passwd.htm#HDRX9A1F0FRIT
| >
| > Your password is the second field (the !). You don't see it because 1) the
| > password itself is in another file (/etc/security/password, in AIX) that is
| > readable only by root, and 2) even if it wasn't shadowed, it would still be
| > encrypted. 31860 is your UID (as well as your primary GID).
| >
| > > o consarnt let me do the math agin..
| > > Filesystem 512-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
| > >
| > > %512 blocks.. does that mean i should have divided by two above
| > > and came to the conclusion that i am using about 15.5MBytes?
| >
| > It's telling you that the data it's showing you is in 512kilobyte size
blocks.
| > Thus yes, divide the numbers by 2 to get a rough approximation of the number
| > of MB shown. However this tells you nothing about how much disk space you
| > personally are using.
|
| hey.. i am not dumb.. if i was using freek 60Gbytes i would be nuked
| in nothun flat OBVIOUSLy.. i am using about 30 MBytes.. i am pretty
| sure.. i think i did that with ws_ftp or someting i don't remember.
| no i suppose ls -l but i don't remember how i did my umpteen
| subdirectories.
| >
| > Kayven, I don't mean to be insulting or anything, but you
| might consider
| > picking up a copy of a basic Unix book, such as Oreilly's "Learning the UNIX
| > Operating System" ( http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunix4/ )
|
| i am considering it.. i know there is more to unix than ls ps -x
| that i don't know..
| but still.. i think there r some seriously OT issues
| here .
| and i don't know why it is so *#@&#*ed difficult for people to
| i don't know cripes. i don't know what to freekin say about it anymore..
| i know yer completely disintrested but somebody gave me a link to
| this aix doo dad that i plastad on http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~kayve
All these obscenities and you still expect help?
I am not the list-owner but thank God for Access Lists in MTAs - and
procmail's use of /dev/null - is all I can say.
-Wash
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