Posts tagged “unix”

February 05, 2010 NFS dotfiles
Reminder to myself: Got a file called .nfs.*? Here's what's going on:
```
# These files are created by NFS clients when an open file is
# removed. To preserve some semblance of Unix semantics the client
# renames the file to a unique name so that the file appears to have
# been removed from the directory, but is still usable by the process
# that has the file open.
```
That quote is from /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind, a shell script on Solaris 10 that's run once a week from root's crontab. Some references:
- Using dtrace instead of lsof to find open files
- Mention of a possible bug in NFSv4 and OpenSolaris
- Another explanation
- Sun Manager's list summary
July 09, 2006 The Great Unix Software Upgrade Flowchart

Note that the snide comment about NetBSD is just a joke...couldn't come up with anything else to say. Everything else, of course, is the gospel truth.

Last day at my old job was Friday, and as a going-away present I got not only a lovely universal gift certificate from my co-workers, but this t-shirt from the sysadmin I hired a little while back:

Arlo and Clara are doing well:

I have been peed on twice now, which I'm told is fairly good for the first week of a new parent.
January 18, 2005 You know it's a good day...
You know it's a good day when you're demonstrating Unix pipes to someone, and suddenly you can see the light dawning, and they say, "Oh man, I've been wasting my time with Windows." Score one for the good guys.