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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: First Post
Article: 7356 of alt.hackers From: ssk@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (Sirtaj Singh Kang) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: First Post Date: 13 Feb 1995 01:52:50 GMT Organization: University of Melbourne Lines: 20 Approved: ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au Message-ID: 3hme1i$r36@news.unimelb.EDU.AU NNTP-Posting-Host: tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
David Lee (dmlee@cris.com) wrote: : This is WAY too easy... Well, I'm one up... this is my first a.h posting, and I've even got an ObHack! ObU*xNewbieHack: One of our university labs has a whole lot of SPARCs which my friends and I (all new to SunOS) would log on to; we wanted to check if anyone we knew was on at the same time (BIG lab, also dialin), so I wrote a csh script to finger all the machines and grep the output with a personal .people file (with friends' login names) and print a nawk-formatted report. It turned out a bit slow (30 machines to finger), so I got each finger to run in the background, putting it's output in a separate file; these were then cocatenated after a few seconds (still-running fingers were killed with a nawk script parsing ps -fu) and the formatting was done the old way. MUCH faster... a logical later step was adding external servers to finger (outside the local network). NOTE: This screws up other processing on a slow machine (upto 30 processes!).
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