Hi There

I'm sitting at my desk at CNET in Bridgewater. I've been assigned a
pretty interesting task of writing a utility that will make the apache
cleanipcs tool port-specific. It has to compare the shared memory
regions of the web server's machine, somehow match the shared memory
segments with the server running on the chosen port, and terminate
only those segments of shared memory. It's to be used under
development for clearing out memory when an application terminates or
the server crashes. You can't just use ipcrm, because that can
eliminate portions of the server's shared memory used for chaching
documents or other innerworkings of a server on another port.

So that's all pretty cool and this is basically the "get your feet
wet" project for me. But there's this hitch... the techs in CA have
yet to get my dev server access approved, so I'm basically doing lots
of research and not getting anywhere on programming, because I can't
get onto any of the boxes I need. Who knows how many things the tech
assigned to getting my account up has to do, today, but I can tell
from the trouble ticket that getting me access isn't a priority of
his.

Sigh.