Dr. Dobb’s Journal in its Linux and open source section is running an article by Emmett Dulaney with 50 Perl questions and answers. The focus is mainly on the knowledge of the language itself with questions like:

A: Login to your shell and type the following: - type ps x - find the PID number of the process - then kill -9 PID number See similar questions...

Send the command "SHOW LICENSE" to LISTSERV. The last item on the response from LISTSERV is "Build date" -- this should be 26 Feb 1999 or later. If the build date reported by LISTSERV is earlier than this (even if it is reporting to be 1.8d) you should install the latest build. See similar questions...

In the WINLSCP program, pull down the Show menu and select "Version & License". Alternatively, you can use the command line "LSCP SHOW VERSION". The version reported should be 1.1b and the date should be Feb 23 1999 or later. See similar questions...

From the console of your VM login, issue the command "TELL MAILER SHOW VERSION" (this assumes that LMail is running under the MAILER account; if it is not, then issue the command to the user account LMail is running under). The response includes a line indicating the version number. If you are running a Y2K compliant version of LMail, this version number will be 1.2d or later. See similar questions...

When I connect to the VPN I get a message saying my password is recognised but I am not authorized for dialup access. When I enter my login name and password I get the message "Error 800: Unable to establish the VPN connection ...". Whenever I try to log on from home I get the messages 'Unable to locate the server copy of your roaming profile' and 'No local profile therefore using temporary profile' See similar questions...

Within the application, click the Help menu and then About QEI Exec. The dialog box displayed shows you: See similar questions...

The easiest way is to connect to the Web Admin interface. You may also wish to examine the servicelog.txt file in the “Logs” folder of the Phantom install. The first thing you should check for is a file in the c:\ directory of your computer called “PhantomServiceQuit.txt”. The contents of that file should give you a good idea of what caused the service to quit. If there is no “PhantomServiceQuit. See similar questions...

Does it matter if my password is longer than 8 characters? I heard there is a problem if your password is too long. The first time I try to use the system after setting up a local secure area and all of my config files, I get an error about invalid argument for the user ticket database in the error log, and I can't log in. See similar questions...

WinGate version information can be accessed from Gatekeeper under the Help menu click "check version". See similar questions...

On your desktop, click Start, then click Settings. Click Control Panel, then click System in the General Tab to locate the system version. See similar questions...

You can verify whether or not the DECwindows Motif Server has been installed on your system by using the following command: $ DIRECTORY SYS$LIBRARY:DECW$*.EXE If no DECW$*.EXE files are present on your system, the DECwindows Motif Server is not installed on your system and you do not need to apply this mandatory update. See similar questions...

Questions about extending PostgreSQL 4.1) I wrote a user-defined function and when I run it in psql, it dumps core. See similar questions...

When the application is running you will see a small C Info logo in your system tray (lower right-hand corner of your screen). See similar questions...

On SLC4 platform SHIFT library (RFIO) is included in the system (/usr/lib/libshift.*), so ROOT with RFIO support is not needed anymore. Compile with See similar questions...

Answer: Yes, if the routefilter interface option is selected.DOS: - SYN Dos - ICMP Dos - Per-host Dos protection Answer: Shorewall has facilities for limiting SYN and ICMP packets. Netfilter as included in standard Linux kernels doesn't support per-remote-host limiting except by explicit rule that specifies the host IP address; that form of limiting is supported by Shorewall. See similar questions...

You can check to see if your program is running in parallel, i.e. it is using more than 1 thread by typing the following command: ps -Lu username -o pid,gid,lwp,psr,s,comm This will give a table of your currently active processes and their lightweight threads. If your program is running in parallel then multiple instances of it should exist that have 0 as their status, i.e. they are running on a processor. For example, below the serial version of swim has only 1 thread. See similar questions...