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What the $%*&! is happening?

What the $%*&! is happening?

Some commands and procedures to shed some light on the current state of play on your OpenServer Release 5 box.

	Who am I?				who am i
	Who am I really?			id -l				
	Where am I?				pwd
	What am I doing?			ps -f
	Who did I login as?			logname
	What's my terminal?			tty
	What are my terminal parameters?	stty -a
	Is terminal flow control working?	ls -alR / (look for garbage)
	What is my current crontab file?	crontab -l
	Do I have uucp jobs queued?		uustat
	My uucp system name?			uuname -l
	My version number?			uname -X | grep Release
	What is the system doing?		w
	What versions are installed?		swconfig
	What are my hardware settings?		hwconfig -hc
	Is /etc/passwd correct?			pwck
	Is /etc/group correct?			grpck
	Is /etc/gettydefs correct?		/etc/getty -c /etc/gettydefs
	Do all files have owners?		quot  (look for numeric UID)
	Who is using all the disk space?	quot
	When did joe last login?		last -n 10 joe 
	What files are owned by UID=944?  find / -user 944 -exec l -d {} \;
	Are file perms/owners/links OK?		custom -v symlinks
						custom -v config
	Check uucp file consistency.		/usr/lib/uucp/uucheck
	What are uucp access permissions?	/usr/lib/uucp/uucheck -v
	How do I stop the X11 login?		scologin [options]
	Give me color text!			setcolor

- Tuning and performance Has the system been swapping? swap -l How much diskspace is left? dfspace or df -v -i Kernel Tuning menu cd /etc/conf/cf.d; configure What are the kernel parameters? /etc/conf/cf.d/configure -x Open files, inodes, processes? pstat | grep '^[0-9]' How is the system running? vmstat 10

- Peripherals How do I boot DOS, NT, etc? bootos [options] What is the print spooler doing? lpstat -t Stop the scheduler. /usr/lib/lpshut Restart a printer. /usr/lib/accept printer_name ; /usr/bin/enable printer_name How do I stop this monster? init 6 or shutdown -g0 -y How do I mount a cdrom? mount -r /dev/cd0 /mnt Where's my DOS partition? dosdir /dev/hd0d

- Online docs Documentation? man -a command_name Whazzat? whatis command_name Which Documentation? apropos buzz_word

- Networking Where am I? hostname Is system foo alive? ping foo ping 192.168.111.1 What machines are connected? netstat How is the network doing? netstat 10 Where are the packets going? netstat -rn Network not work? netstat -s How is the ethernet card doing? ndstat or ndstat -l What's my network configuration? ifconfig -a PPP? pppstat