2012-05-14 sort(1) is a tool much more powerful than commonly recognized. I also can control only a small part of its features. The follow- ing command line lists out the last login dates of the users on my server. The entries are sorted by login date. lastlog -u 1000-16000 | grep -v '^Username' | sort -k9n -k5M -k6n -k7n | cut -c-16,44- I wasn't able to use sort this way before. Example pages on the Internet had helped me. I still need to learn much more about sort. As I changed from a swap partition to a swap file on my home server recently, I took a look at the swap situation on my vserver: $ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/null partition 1048576 0 -1 Is that a joke? There is a swap file but it's mapped to /dev/null. The system has a swap file but anything you write to it will be directly transferred to the black hole. What? Am I just missing something or is this a marketing gag? Unfortunately, my notebook (dream) was very ill today. It took many tries until it finally booted. The DMA errors were really bad today. It's definitely time for my newly aquired replacement (or alternative) notebook to arrive. After the bad morning hours, I was able to work normally for the rest of the day. Strange. Backups are made, but it's always better to transfer a living system than a dead one. In any case, dead systems are bad ... http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke