oprhan/zombie processes
by tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
Someone requested a list of orphaned and zombie processes. I know that orphan processes have
PPID of 1 so I can
ps -aeo user,pid,ppid,stime,time,state,command | awk '($3=="1" ||$6=="Z")'
But this will also print all system processes because they also have PPID of 1.
How can I find just the orphan processes
(without | grep -v mgetty | grep -v init | grep -v this | grep -v that | grep -v something_else | grep -v blahblahblah)?
16 years
video cards for linux?
by Tom Poe
Need recommendation for low-end video card for virtualization/gaming.
Any suggestions?
Tom
16 years
Re : So Long and thanks for all the Fish
by Croombe F. Pensom
As a Fedora user since Core 3, I can't make out what all the fuss is
about. I've never had problems with any Fedora number (I am now on FC 8)
and have never noticed the apparent drawbacks list by Charles Curly.
I have a home-built system using an Asus mother board, Celeron 3.2 GHz
processor, 2 SATA drives, built-in video, Iomega 250 Zip, two Samsung
laser printers (one color, one black), a Canon i860 ink-jet printer (for
photos), a Canon LiDE 25 scanner, a USB 40 Gby HD for backups etc., and
an ADSL link to Internet (thanks to Ma Bell). I have also installed
Fedora in various flavors on much smaller systems down to 233 MHz
processor, 10 Gby HD, primitive video with great success as I can pick
and choose which packages I install. I have never had any download
problems with the updates and think that regular updates means that the
Fedora people are on their toes.
In the past I have tried : Ubuntu, Knoppix, SuSE, DSL, Mint and a few
others but always get back to Fedora due to its ease of use and friendly
user interface. Any "problems" I have had have been associated with
glitches in applications rather than Fedora and its kernel etc.. With
the minor exception of trying to get my 56 k modem working for fax : I
still can't fathom this one out and neither can a couple of local gurus
who have been summoned to help me!
I am now looking forward to the official Fedora 9 but, as I've found out
from previous difficulties, I shall do a re-install rather than an
update as this seems to work more reliably.
CroombeFP
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OT: Programming in C
by max
I want to learn C and I know there are quite a few programmers on this
list. I am looking for a couple of good books on learning C. I am not
exactly a beginner but I am no expert and i would like to start going
over everything from scratch. So if I could get some referrals to a
couple of books I would greatly appreciate it. I am looking for a good
thorough beginners guide to C and also something for the intermediate
programmer as I expect to get through the former in fairly short
order. I ultimately will be directing my efforts at kernel hacking. As
always , any advice and or opinion is gratefully received.
Max
16 years
Re: Question about this list
by Petrus de Calguarium
No, I don't have a reply-to address nor did I use a delivery status
notification request. I think it is spam. I will flag it.
Thanks.
16 years
[RFE] Red bikeshed
by Bill Crawford
In view of the increasing prevalence of users with impaired colour
vision I would like to suggest changing the boot sequence to use blue
to indicate failure to start a service.
It would of course require testing all current initscripts to ensure
they work correctly with the new success/failure/action functions from
/etc/init.d/functions ...
Any takers for testing?
16 years
Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
by Paul Shaffer
Another simplistic analogy from Cox that fails to even resemble an intelligent comment:
--- On Mon, 4/28/08, Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
> To: ace_wizard(a)yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, April 28, 2008, 10:27 AM
> > There's a big middle ground other distros are
> filling and which Fedora has apparently ?
> > abandoned.
>
> Abandoned isn't the word I'd choose - it never
> wanted or had the middle
> ground in the first place. And as someone who worked on
> late RH products
> I have to say the "middle ground" has a tendancy
> to be the gap between
> two stools.
>
> Alan
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Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
by Paul Shaffer
How's it feel being one of the stools?
--- On Mon, 4/28/08, Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
> To: ace_wizard(a)yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, April 28, 2008, 10:27 AM
> > There's a big middle ground other distros are
> filling and which Fedora has apparently ?
> > abandoned.
>
> Abandoned isn't the word I'd choose - it never
> wanted or had the middle
> ground in the first place. And as someone who worked on
> late RH products
> I have to say the "middle ground" has a tendancy
> to be the gap between
> two stools.
>
> Alan
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Can't Delete Large Files
by kubota2550@gmail.com
I'm running Zoneminder video surveillance on Fedora 8. I had something
happen to cause some database corruption. I then started getting hundreds
of zero size files being dumped into the events directory.
I've cleaned up everything except now I can't delete the large directories.
I have 6 directories totaling 180 GB of space. I've tried rm -rf to the
directories and the system literally hangs for days and the directories
still aren't deleted.
How can I delete the huge directories and underlying files? Running ext3.
16 years
Re: Java + Firefox
by Tim Evans
>
>Should the Firefox Java plugin work with Fedora-8 IcedTea Java?
>Does anyone have it working?
>Is there some setting one has to make?
Check back in the archives in the December, 2007, timeframe. There was a great
deal of discussion of this issue, and several solutions.
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