Consider the following command:

; grep 'gabba gabba hey' /var/log/messages | wc -l

This looks like a perfectly sane and sensible way of doing syslog loganalysis: fish out a pattern, then count or otherwise crunch it up. It'sjust the sort of thing Unix tools are built for, and I do it all thetime. (My howmany program often gets used here.)

Unfortunately, as I was reminded recently, this appealingly simpleapproach is not quite correct. It

Recently, I accidentally found out which of two options Solaris usesfor matching names in NFS exports. As traditional, I did this by stubbing my toe .

Given a name in an /etc/dfs/sharetab line, there are two possible waysof checking if it matches an incoming NFS request: you could resolve the sharetab name to its IP addresses and see if the request's IP addressmatched, or you could take the request's IP address and try to turn itinto a hostname and see if