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Answers in this category: What do I want to watch out for, right after ISL? What do I want to set up, right after ISL? In what order do I install all those PTF's? What logs do I want to follow? Where are errors recorded? Do I like Uw7/OSR6? Is it helpful? Does it harsh my reality? A program that was running has crashed and is locked up, why? What are the keys I press to kill a process? What are the keys I press to kill a foreground process? How do I find and kill a background process? How do I find and kill a process? What are the various 'kill' command arguments? What are the Security Profiles and their password restrictions? What are the restrictions on login names? What's a umask? What's the default umask? What's an environment? What's a .profile or .cshrc? Where are all the possible places to set the environment? Where do I change the default account aspects, like the login shell? How do I reuse a UID after deleting the original user? What are the advantages of command line 'userdel?' What are the advantages of command line 'usermod?' Where do I change the default password restrictions, such as length? How do I record unsuccessful login attempts? How do I lock an account? How do I unlock a locked account? How do I control process priority in Uw7/OSR6, with nice? What's good to know about cron in Uw7/OSR6? How do I monitor the amount of space left on my drives? How do I determine disk usage by user? How do I locate and remove 'core' files? What is the DCU? What do I need to know about it? How do I spool a package instead of install it? How do I change the resolution / colors on my video card? Will you describe the boot process please? What is the default run level for Uw7/OSR6? How do I set it? What does 'Can't load stage3' mean? What can I do at the boot: prompt? Where do I set autoboot time, after which the system goes multiuser? How do I boot unix.old? How do I make a change to the /etc/inittab file? Why does my system hang during startup or during shutdown? How do I rebuild the kernel? How do I rebuild the MBB or MBR? How do I rebuild the boot slice? How do I figure what process caused a core dump, such as core.242? What are the important tunable parameters I might adjust like MAXUP? How do I stop the X desktop or the CDE from running? How do I send a pop-up message to the Windows machines on my LAN? How do I change the message I see at the login prompt? How do I get the character terminals to blank the screen? How get SCO UnixWare or OpenServer to load XFree86 instead of XSco? How do I disable tty's on UnixWare 7/OpenServer 6? How do I check which PTF patches are installed? How do I get inn to start on UnixWare 7/OpenServer 6? How do I list or remove all Ghost Addresses? How do I remove the password prompt for a user with no password? How do I show the system device information like at boot? How do I find my Activation Key?