nproc

2011-03-16 Thread Kenny Lussier
Hi all, I have some questions about kernel calculations and number of processes. First, the specs: Rhel 5 running 2.6.18-238.el5 My first question is, does anyone know how nproc is calculated? I have seen some issues lately where the limits.conf hard limit is imposed, but the user hasn't

ARTICLE - Red Hat and the Kernel Kerfluffle

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
A decent writeup about how/why Red Hat changed the way they distribute kernel patches: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8414/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: nproc

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
My first question is, does anyone know how nproc is calculated? I have seen some issues lately where the limits.conf hard limit is imposed, but the user hasn't exceeded the number of processes. Don't forget that multithreaded processes (Java, WWW browsers, etc) might bump you up against your

Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-16 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hey, all. I'm writing up a script to do auto-provisioning on Asterisk, and it works great thus-far. Went to move it to a different machine, though, and lo! Stopped dead. Digging deeper, I found that nmap -- which I'm calling (in large part because it keeps track of vendor MAC associations)

Re: Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
Went to move it to a different machine, though, and lo! Stopped dead. Digging deeper, I found that nmap -- which I'm calling (in large part because it keeps track of vendor MAC associations) isn't returning MACs. I brought over the executable from machine A (functioning) to machine B...

Re: Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-16 Thread Kyle Smith
On my Ubuntu system it was 755 by default and, as expected, returned MAC address data as root, but not as a non-privileged user. If I chmod ug+s the binary, non-priv users suddenly get MAC data as well. None of this explains why root would ever *not* receive MAC data, however. If it helps an