Doom as a tool for system administration As I was listening to Anil talk about daemons spawning processes and sysadmins killing them, I thought, What a great user interface! Imagine running around with a shotgun blowing away your daemons and processes, never needing to type kill -9 again. Sneaking up on my processes. In 1981, Vernor Vinge introduced the concept of cyberspace to the reading ...

Securing NIS (formerly YP) The following is a brief compendium of what we at Auburn Univeristy College of Engineering use to secure our NIS networks. We had a mix of about 65% NIS, 35% NIS+ network before dropping NIS+ due to reliability problems and setting all machines to use NIS. The following is our implementation of securing NIS using various vendor patches and free utilities from around ...

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