This week's statistics are distorted by a Wednesday noon system rebootthat had the effect of resetting some of them. Having said, that, thisweek we:

• got 11,083 messages from 230 different IP addresses.
• handled 15,463 sessions from 840 different IP addresses.
• received 88,321 connections from at least 28,538 different IPaddresses since Wednesday noon .
• hit a highwater of 38 connections being checked at once,

In the footsteps of the first little script , here'ssomething I call field :

#!/bin/shfn=""for i in "$@"; do  nf='$'$i  if [ -z "$fn" ]; then    fn="$nf"  else    fn="$fn, $nf"  fidoneexec awk "{print $fn}"

(The exec is another way around the Linux bash issue .)

You give it one or more

I've recently been playing with Fedora Core 5 (I know, I'm a bit behindthe times) on a new Athlon 64 machine. In the spirit of my firstirritations with Fedora Core 4 , here are somevery early, very preliminary impressions of Fedora Core 5:

• the hcid daemon (part of the Bluetooth stuff) consistentlycrashes on system shutdown on x86_64 machines. Since Idon't have any Bluetooth stuff, I'll be removing the bluez-utils