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It has a very useful purpose in scripting: in order to discard unwanted (diagnostic or otherwise) output from a command in a shell script, one simply redirects this output to /dev/null. One example is using grep to see whether a file contains a regex; grep will print the line(s) containing...

if so, your FTP server will not be accessible from outside, unless the firewall is configured to forward FTP control (and maybe data, if you want to support passive mode) connections specifically to your mac; you would need a fixed internal IP address, as well. Allowing anonymous ftp access...

about sums it up. even though i have been known to use other, more gooeyish MUAs. At one point in time, elm w/MIME was good. Mail.app is not bad, but it really needs something in front of it; procmail does nicely.

Only the group ownership is inherited, this being the default behavior of BSD. There is no way to force permissions by inheritance, but you could have your collaborating people set their umask from 022 to 002, thus not masking away the group-writable bit. It is only important that the...

Yes, it worked here as well. Odd. OTOH, I am usually running these out of for i in * which would have to break with standard setting of IFS (bourne style shell)

No, the embedded spaces do not get handled correctly, and so not everything goes to /var. But the System and Library sure do; and so does the kernel and the sbin and the whole plethora of other unixy thingies, some of which are unix symlinks and difficult to re-create correctly under OS9...

is possible by commenting out the line of /etc/rc which starts swap "process". Hopefully, you have enough RAM...

Neither the username nor the password of the re-created users need to be the same; their UIDs, GIDs, and home directories do, however. Luckily, these can be modified using netinfo browser. Unix (and OS X) track file ownership via UID, and not username: so users A and B with the same UID...

by placing the required line into /etc/fstab. it is picked up by /etc/rc around line 95 take a look at man fstab to get the idea of the required syntax; use mount to find out the device node of the partition you want to mount. is ugly.

if your thesis has anything to do with mathematics, or plain technical writing? Granted, it will not work very well (without a lot of programming) for literary, and probably not at all for pictorial works.

well, you can nohup the current session, start FTP (interactively), send the FTP client in background, and logout. This will work better if you don't use an interactive FTP client. Please beware that on some implementations of client/servers, you can send them in endless loop on stdin if...

I am not one of those; in fact, I've never cared much for SysV in any of its incarnations, whether from USL or otherwise. STREAMS based networking, SysV IPC, /opt, 'nuff said. Sadly, I do not know as much as really needed about OS X deviation from established BSD practices (NetInfo), which...

They are just there; they come from 4.4BSD. Flowers are USA 50 State flowers (not especially useful to the part of the world outside USA). /usr/share/dict/words are from Webster 1934, as stated in the README They came to OS X via NetBSD (yes, I know, I am a smart*** who can read hacked...

Ah, an emergency bootable system (on a separate partition) Useful :) Seriously, anyone knows how to make a bootable CD with OS X shell on it? Exactly for this kind of emergency work.

This was April's Fools joke. Why don't you follow the link towards the Motorola 68k page, to see that the fastest 68k (it is a 68060, BTW) is at 75 MHz? Can we close this one?

Dazed, you don't have a window manager running. The one which comes by default with XFree86 is twm, which is extremely basic, and needs three buttons to use well. OroborOSX is somewhat better (looks like Aqua, but does not behave likewise; I still use it)

wow, that was a bad no-no mv. what it did is that it expanded into mv < some-item > /dir1 /dir2 /you-get-the-idea /var and moved everything into /var; everything included your shared libraries, as well. Reinstall. Never, ever have a wildcard for the last argument of mv...

It looks for IP only if ethernet interface is active (i.e. the other side of the cable is powered on and carrier is present). One would assume that modem powers completely off, but who knows... you can check by looking at ifconfig en0 in terminal: if it says media: autoselect (100baseTX...

Your DHCP server takes longer than it used to before it hands out the IP? ( I assume you are running with DHCP setup )

but I could not find my entry. Sorry folks, but nothing beats the nethack gameplay with DEC extended charset on a good ole VT102. So there :)