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From:  (slugg jello)
Subject: Re: cursor keys in csh (editmode=emacs)
Reply-To: slugg@mouthers.wa.com
Organization: Mouthing Flowers
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:40:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.103041.28826@infko.uucp> Hartmut Benz  
<benz@nestor.uni-koblenz.de> writes:
> In article <1992Nov17.211857.13957@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>  
> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
> [...]
> > I never was able to implement this from the FAQ on a 040 cube running 2.1.
> > Niether was another friend with the same machine.
> > I sort of wonder if anyone has done this the way it is explained in
> > the FAQ...
> I did it on a cube (3.0) and a slab (2.1) an both worked just fine.

Its never worked for me, on 2.0 or 3.0.  :^(
-- 
Doug Kent
slugg@mouthers.wa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Subject: Re: Changing Permissions SUMMARY
Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 21:47:12 GMT

Thanks to all the people who told me about the -R flag in chmod.   
This applies the specified permissions change to all sub-folders of  
the selected folder (but does NOT traverse symbolic links).  Exactly  
what I needed.  (BTW, I was unable to RTFMan pages because the  
non-extended OS doesn't have them; when I finally get my CD-ROM  
drive, I'll have access to them).

In 3.0, the same can be apparently be accomplished from Workspace, by  
selecting the folder, choosing cmd-4, and then picking options from  
the panel that comes up; I'll take several people's word that this  
works.  For the same reason cited above, I'm still using 2.1.

Ciao, Stefano
---
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: REPOST: Reading 720K DOS disks
Date: 21 Nov 1992 21:03:40 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.egr.uh.edu

[I am going to repost this question and I am going to provide more  
information.]

I thought that under NS2.1, 720K DOS disks could be read.  I also thought  
that this was true for NS3.0.  However, whenever I insert a 720K DOS disk  
into my NeXT running NS3.0, I get the following messages on my Console:

DOS File System: Initialized
sh: 26: not found
sh: 3F^Ef^EF@: not found

Workspace then _ejects_ the disk.  It will not accept a 720K DOS disk.
These disks _do_ have volumne labels.  It does not seem relate to the  
labels although that was a good assumption...

This problem is happening on multiple workstations, all Mono slabs.  This  
is not an isolated event.

This is for _any_ 720K DOS disk.  I do not have the ability to test 1.44M  
DOS disks because the only PC I have around here is my old laptop, hence  
the 720K disks...

Anyone know what is going on?



--
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Engineering Computing Center *  comments, complaints, questions)
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From: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason)
Subject: Terminal 3.0 gets weird after long kermit sessions
Keywords: Terminal.app,kermit,screen buffer
Reply-To: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:23:57 GMT


Since upgrading to NS 3.0, I have been having a strange and very annoying  
problem when I connect to my university's mainframe using Kermit.  After  
working for about 45 minutes, information sent to my screen from the remote  
host becomes almost entirely garbled.  I can make out the occasional word, but  
lots of letters are missing, spacing seems to change--90% unreadable.  My  
outgoing data continues to be sent correctly.

I have the screen buffer set to unlimited in Preferences.  I am using the most  
recent NeXT version of kermit available from the archives.  I've never had a  
problem like this before installing NS 3.0.

Any ideas?

--
Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason	        internet:    jmm@umich.edu
Dept. of Economics                bitnet: usergc76@umichum
Univ. of Michigan                 phone:      313-764-7438      
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220          fax:        313-763-9181      
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp)
Subject: Formatting an IBM OEM drive
Keywords: IBM drive format 3.0
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:22:16 GMT


I have an external 1.2 GB disk that I wanted to connect to my
NeXT running 3.0. It was found on boot with this message:

> IBM OEM 0663L12 Rev s t  as sd1 at sc0 target 3 lun 0

When I tried to format it I got the following errors in my console:
> /usr/etc/disk -i -h pipeline -l "UntitledDisk"  /dev/rsd1a
> disk name: IBM OEM 0663L12
> disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
> writing disk label
> sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x1c48,  
retry 1
 < This repeated 9 more times>

> 
> wtfs: I/O error

HELP... Any way to make it recognize this drive? Hate to think I have to  
shell out ~$2,000 for a new drive of the same capacity.

--
	Peter A. Korp
	Assistant Scientist
	Argonne National Laboratory
	korp@eid.anl.gov
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From: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Re: Drifting clock
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:32:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.090205.3933@worg.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> david@worg.questor.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>In article <1992Nov14.224120.26792@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>  
>smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) writes:
>> If anyone wants to get the program I use to set my clock, I'll be
>> happy to make up a little package of the expect script and a short
>> piece of C source that will do the trick.  You will need to have
>> both "expect" and "tcl" installed in order to run it.
>
>Please post.
>

I'll email to people who request.  Its a little long to post here.


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From: matthews@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workspace won't launch apps
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:50:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Nov18.205022.5607
Organization: Western Washington University

One of our nextcubes stopped launching from the browser,
although "open" from a shell worked.
Then it fixed itself.
Now another station exhibits this.
It all started with 3.0

Any hints?



-- 
Geoffrey Matthews

matthews@fortress.cs.wwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: cpu usage of unused but enabled serial port
Organization: Xerox PARC
Date: 23 Nov 92 01:58:01 GMT

hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:

    [ ... ]

you've misunderstood the original posting.  the problem isn't that serial
port communications generate interrupts and consume cpu time when they're
being used; it's that they generate interrupts and consume *more* cpu time
when they're not being used (under some circumstances; see my previous
posting for details).
                                             .mike.
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: loginwindow hooks- ARGHHHH!!!!
Date: 21 Nov 92 21:29:54 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Nov20.134347.9096@ifi.unizh.ch> lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Apostolos Lytras) writes:
>Argghhh.... root runs shellscripts!! DON'T DON'T DON'T! A shellscript
>that is run by root *is* a threat to the security of your system and 
>possibly of many other systems as well. Especially when it is supposed
>to run inattendedly.

Bull.

Do you know how many shell scripts there are on your system?  How 'bout
/etc/rc?  Guess who runs it.

SETUID shell scripts, now there's a problem.  Not to mention *writeable*
shell scripts that root runs.

>Besides, your programs look like a lot of redundancy to me. Every Login
>and Logout gets logged (with time, connecting host etc.) in
>/usr/adm/wtmp. There is also information about shutdowns, reboots and
>crashes in that file.

Until NeXTstep 3.0, console logins weren't logged anywhere except maybe
process accounting if you do that (and everyone should; can't hurt and it's
of great help to determine what went wrong).

>Cheers
>- A.

If you want to give users a login hook, uh, hook, just have a little check
like:

if [ -f /users/home/dir/$1/.loginhook ]; then
	/bin/su - $1 -c /users/home/dir/$1/.loginhook
fi

Runs their file $HOME/.loginhook as them.  Does anyone know of a way to
specify a home dir of a user other than your own?  There's always finding it
out via getpwent'isms, but something like ~$1 in sh.  I know you can always
write it in csh, but, well, I don't want to.
------
Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
------
Skinner's Constant (or Flannagan's Finagling Factor):
	That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to,
	or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you
	should have gotten.
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swap File
Date: 16 Nov 92 08:50:23 GMT

> In article <1992Nov14.220947.2367@eps.com> steve@eps.com writes:
> >How can I move the  swap file on another hard drive besides the
> >startup drive?  We have 2 drives in our NeXT Dimension system
> >and our startup drive is almost full.

First off, make sure the other hard drive (the one you're not booting off  
of) is listed in /etc/fstab.  Second, edit the entry in /etc/swaptab to  
point to the appropriate file on the second disk.  Make sure that this file  
(and all directories in the pathname of the file) are setup and permitted  
the same as /private/vm/swapfile.  Presumably you'd just have the same  
filename on the second disk.

If you have the man pages, check out:
	man swaptab

This is how a friend of mine had things set up, when he had two hard disks,  
both of which were bootable (one had the minimum system, one had the entire  
extended release, and both systems were setup to use the exact same file for  
their swapping).

cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote, when
           answering the above:
> Here are my notes on how I did it recently.
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
> I finally figured how to get the swapfile out of the root file system.
> While working with somebody else's new Turbo Color Station, with the
> new ADB keyboard and everything.
> 
> So -- my approach is the following:  get swap off the root file system,
> thus freeing 16MB and also making lots of room for Mathematica to play.
> Put users on the external disk.  Put /usr/tmp on the external disk instead
> of soft-linked to /tmp.
> 
> Procedure:  (external disk is Dext, and is mkfs'd by now)
      [skipping over details of doing the same thing via
       symbolic links - gad]

This seems to me to be a little too tricky, and I don't see what advantage  
it buys you over just editting the swaptab file (which, after all, was  
designed for precisely this task).


--
Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA
From: ralf@reswi.en.open.de (Ralf E. Stranzenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: kalloc messages
Date: 18 Nov 1992 20:03:48 GMT
Organization: News Server fuer en.open.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.en.open.de

Hi,

i often get messages like this in my console window:

	Software Version 3.0 (Hyper3B)
	Expanding zone kalloc.1024
	Expanding zone kalloc.1024
	Nov 18 13:12:36 jodokus su: ralf on /dev/ttyp1
	Expanding zone kalloc.1024
	Disk Label: NeXTSTEP_3.0
		Disk Capacity 659MB, Device Block 2048 bytes
		Disk is Write Protected
	Nov 18 13:20:38 Workspace: Mounted hard disk at /NeXTSTEP_3.0
	Expanding zone kalloc.1024
	Expanding zone kalloc.1024
	Expanding zone kalloc.1024
	Expanding zone kalloc.1024

I *do* know what the "Disk Label" messages mean; but what's the
"kalloc" message good for. I do get around 40..50 messages a day...

	- ralf
--
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                                Fido: Ralf_Stranzenbach 2:245/5800.12
                       (Voice)-Phone: +49 2302 / 68403
--
Murphy lebt !
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: passwd problems-->NetInfo
Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:22:44 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.egr.uh.edu

In article <1992Nov14.162155.24446@Trirex.COM> dglattin@trirex.com (Dennis  
Glatting) writes:
=>In article <BxMq43.KK4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David  
=>Lemson) writes:
=>> dockd@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Dion Dock) writes:
=>> 
=>> >I am having touble getting Netinfo to work.  Users on my 'station  
=>cannot do
=>> >a 'passwd -s' or a 'passwd -f' without getting this error messgae:
=>> 
=>> >Cannot change finger information or shell with NetInfo (yet).
=>> 
=>> >I tried running NetinfoManager, and added a _write_passwd and  
=>_write_shell
=>> >entries to each user with the attributes set to the user name, but that  
=>didn't
=>> >work either. 
=>> 
=>> passwd -s and passwd -f simply don't work with netinfo. (at least
=>> not in 2.1, does it work in 3.0?)
=>
=>The other thing you may check is your NetInfo structure.  Make sure that  
=>the *users* subdirectory exists in all domains in the path to the user's  
=>NetInfo entry.  For example, if you have a three level domain where the  
=>user accounts are stored in the root but there is no users subdirectory in  
=>the mid level then I would expect this problem.
=>

You have a good point, but the problem is far simplier than a netinfo problem:  
passwd -s and passwd -f were not modified to use netinfo.  Therefore they  
can't make changes to the netinfo database... 

=>--
=>Dennis P. Glatting / Sr. Technical Manager / Trirex Systems Inc.
=>315 Post Road West / Westport, Connecticut 06880 / (203)221-4600
=>dennis_glatting@trirex.com (NeXTmail Ok)
=>Member League for Programming Freedom

--
Paul S. Sears                *  sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
The University of Houston    *  suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
Engineering Computing Center *  comments, complaints, questions)
NeXT System Administration   *  DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC 
          >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<<
"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: cpu usage of unused but enabled serial port
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:51:07 GMT
Organization: Xerox PARC

(this should probably be put in the FAQ)

why does an unused serial port consume cpu?

because you've got a (probably fairly long) unshielded serial cable
attached to it, with either nothing at the other end or a powered-off
device at the other end.  EE's call this an antenna.  it's probably
picking up most of the radio stations in your area, which the serial
chip is interpreting as a continuous stream of garbage bytes, which
it feeds to getty, which tries to interpret them as login attempts.

how do you avoid this problem?

   - leave the device at the other end switched on (even when it's not
     transmitting, it will assert a voltage that overrides the noise)

   - unplug the cable from the next when you're not using it

   - use 'kill -STOP' & 'kill -CONT' to stop & resume the getty process
     as needed

   - buy an adequately shielded serial cable

                                             .mike.
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From: uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische)
Subject: Re: rtfd missing images
Reply-To: uunet!lkba!lkb
Organization: LKB Associates, Inc.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:55:35 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.234835.27810@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>  
jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) writes:
> For some reason most of the NeXT documentation no longer images the tiff  
files  
> in rtfd documents.  Instead I get a little Next icon in place of the  
images  
> (like you see when you open xxxx.rtfd/TXT.rtf) .  Rtfd file copies won't  
image,  
> rtfd inspectors won't either.  If I drag the images out of one on these  
> documents, stash them, delete the originals and drag the stashed copies  
back-  
> those particular image will work.  However, I would rather no do this for  
all  
> of the images in the doc's!!!.  I cannot get this to work as root or  
myself or  
> as a new user.  I have rebuilt suffixes3_0.wmd, apps3_0.wmd, and  
> defaults3_0.wmd to no avail.  Has anyone else seen this??  Anybody have a  
clue  
> where to look next??

As a matter of fact I just noticed this last night when I was reading the  
Appsoft Draw documentation.  I knew the NeXT icon didn't belong there but I  
didn't take the time to figure out why.  I suggest that you write this one  
up and send it in to bug_next@next.com

Larry Blische
-- 
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uunet!lkba!lkb
LKB Associates, Inc.
410 285 2262
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reading 720K DOS disks
Date: 20 Nov 1992 16:27:29 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.egr.uh.edu


I thought that under NS2.1, 720K DOS disks could be read.  I also thought  
that this was true for NS3.0.  However, whenever I insert a 720K DOS disk  
into my NeXT running NS3.0, I get the following messages on my Console:

DOS File System: Initialized
sh: 26: not found
sh: 3F^Ef^EF@: not found

This is for _any_ 720K DOS disk.  I do not have the ability to test 1.44M  
DOS disks because the only PC I have around here is my old laptop, hence  
the 720K disks...

Anyone know what is going on?

--
Paul S. Sears                *  sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
The University of Houston    *  suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
Engineering Computing Center *  comments, complaints, questions)
NeXT System Administration   *  DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC 
          >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<<
"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
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From: lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Apostolos Lytras)
Subject: Re: loginwindow hooks- ARGHHHH!!!!
Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:43:47 GMT

Argghhh.... root runs shellscripts!! DON'T DON'T DON'T! A shellscript
that is run by root *is* a threat to the security of your system and 
possibly of many other systems as well. Especially when it is supposed
to run inattendedly.

Besides, your programs look like a lot of redundancy to me. Every Login
and Logout gets logged (with time, connecting host etc.) in
/usr/adm/wtmp. There is also information about shutdowns, reboots and
crashes in that file. 

You get at least two unix programs to evaluate that file: last, ac. For
details let Librarian.app show you the according man pages.

You can also search the archives (with archie) for a little piece of C
code called 'rdwtmp.c' which gives you yet another view of the login
data in /usr/adm/wtmp.

Cheers
- A.
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	 lytras@amiga.physik.unizh.ch  	|   Zuerich, SysAdmin
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From: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason)
Subject: That darn CDPlayer.app
Reply-To: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:24:30 GMT



I just had to reinstall 3.0 on one of my disks (actually, a new disk) and I  
forgot (at least) one thing I had previously solved: when I insert an audio  
CD-ROM, the NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPlayer.app starts up, but it says it can't  
find a disk.  The only way I can play it is to manually start CDPlayer.app,
then insert the disk.  What do I have to do to make it all happen  
automatically?  

--
Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason	        internet:    jmm@umich.edu
Dept. of Economics                bitnet: usergc76@umichum
Univ. of Michigan                 phone:      313-764-7438      
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220          fax:        313-763-9181
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT-to-NeXT printing without Netinfo?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 04:08:10 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu


I read the documentation, and did this in order to print from
one NeXT to another NeXT that has a printer, over ethernet but
not using netinfo:

1. Added the host name of the computer without the printer to
   /etc/hosts.lpd.
2. Added a /etc/printcap to the NeXT without the printer indicating
   the one with a printer, and also niload'ed that into that machine.

The printer can be selected and printed to on the machine with no
printer.  However, the stuff just sits in the spool directory, and
the status file there says it's waiting for the queue on the machine
with the printer to be activated.  I've rebooted both machines after
the changes.  Printing works fine on the machine with the printer.

A possibly related problem is that the PrintManager doesn't show the
status or all the junk in the spool directory when I press Queue ...

It seems close, but I seem to be missing something.  Any clues?

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: Re: Swap File
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:10:05 GMT
Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn

peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (Peter Eisch) writes:
>[lots of complex ideas]

>if you have a disk (external or otherwise) that you want to swap off of,  
>simply:

># disk -L swapdisk /dev/rsd??

Still too complex :-)

Login as root and relabel the disk you want to use as swapdisk to
'swapdisk' in the Workspacemanager - then reboot. No Shell involved.
-- 
Heiko W.Rupp  Gerwigstr.5  7500 Kh'e 1  hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org  +49 721 693642
Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ...

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From: jja@fnbc.com (Joseph Alotta)
Subject: need help with sh programming oddity 
Keywords: 3.0, sh, cron
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:21:12 GMT


i have been running a shell every night for about 2 years.  when i
ugraded the OS to NeXtStep 3.0, i started having this problem.

the shell does the rsh and then does half of the next echo and then
stops.

this is the program.


#!/bin/sh -x
 
 
 

$UCB/rsh diva /usr/cleo/answer.sh   

echo '::::::::::back:on:amy::::::::::::::::'       # stops halfway here.

$UCB/rcp diva:/usr/cleo/csidata.dat /tmp/data.csi


this is the output:

 {FS=":"}{print $1}
HOURS=18
+ [ 18 -lt 4 ]
+ [ 154989 -lt 50000 ]    #last line of answer.sh
+ echo ::::::
::::::

notice the echo only does the first six characters.  i've tried other
characters and it only prints the first six.  btw, this only happens
durring cron, from a manual startup it runs right through.

is this wierd or what?


joe.
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