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Hi guys, I don't really know anything about cron jobs but I need something that will check to make sure my mysql server is up and running every few minutes or so. Or maybe one that can detect if the mysql process died and restart it. I also need to make sure that it is set to come on line after a reboot. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty. Mysql Ver...

Hello, I want to know how to view or edit images in unix operating system?

Is it possible to have multiple accounts in Linux/unix with privileges equal to 'root' account? If yes, how to do that (i.e. how to provide an account in linux with ROOT privileges)? THANKS in advance..............

We are FOISON Technology Limited, one of the professional Sign-Making and Advertising Equipment manufacture and dealers in China, engaged in selling advertising industry machinery such as large-format printer, laser engraver machine, cutting plotter, polishing machine ,cutter grinder and the related materials.Owing to high products quality and...

Hi, I installed a Linux server. I need to configure proxy server settings on that server. I know the ip address and port number of the proxy server but I do not know how to configure them. So could anyone please let me know how to do that? Thanks in advance! Sangith

It keeps telling me that .wine is NOT owned by me! I used Sudo but can't reenter a password because it refuses to let me. My brain is snapped and I'm beyond frustrated! My brain keeps spitting out the wrong info for my fingers to type! I don't know if using my actual password was the issue, or if I typed the stupid password in wrong! Help....

Hi all, I am using freeBSD . I have written a PHP script that can give me IP , hostname as well as MAc address of the work station. I have used shell_exec("arp -a"); And than used the perg_match(PHP function ) to get MAC address. That works fine on my PC. But when i run that script on other PCS , It gives me correct IP and hostname ,...

I am getting these Two lines 112 and 113 errors when running this shell script, any idea what is wrong with this script, also I have HTML link for full script, I pointed to 2.6.x code: GEN usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz Linux-2.6.20.21/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh line:112 && uid=0 || && uid=0 && gid=0 || && gid=0 ...

Sorry if this post is rather long but hopefully you wont get bored half way through. I have a project in hand which i have started and have a deadline of 1 week. Basically what i need to do is to create a shell script in Bash for the game Hangman. I am sure everyone is well aware of the game. The down side is that i can not use "sed" or "awk". FUN...

hi, i have not been able to find out the address of my pc's parallel port.. i am using linux os.. i checked /proc/ioports but parport is not there pls help me find it.. thanks

Hi all, Can anyone help me with a script to produce an output file of a "df -m" command with ";" seperators. I assume its very easy but I know nothing about Linux/Unix (I'm a newbie) That is: df -m $ df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 9845 4881 4464 53% /

I am a website designer and one of my main tools was Photoshop, before i switched to Ubuntu 7.04 I do have gimp, but it lacks tools that i need, such as a box drawer (at least i cant find it). Is there any other program that is like photoshop? short of using wine. Thanks alot.

Hello community, I have a stupid question...of course Im not expert of csh scripting I couldn't get how to compose a string in a csh script. suppose I have: set STR1 = "text1" set STR2 = "text2"

Hi, I need a big favor from you guys. I've installed Fedora 8 on a dell server in our office and i want to install sun application server on it. So I downloaded the "sjsas-9_1_01-linux.bin" file from sun's web site. and opened a terminal as a root user. This is what I entered in the terminal. # cd soft # ls jre-6u3-linux-i586.rpm sjsas.bin...

How do I get the used-memory of a solaris running system using C code ? Thanks!

Hi All, I have been surfing to get some idea on how to compare same files from two different paths. one path will have oldfiles directory and another path will have newfiles directory. Each main directories will have sub-directories in them and each sub-directories inturn will have *.txt files(simple plain text file having several lines...

Hello All. I hope I am asking this question in the right section of the site. I'm working on Solaris 10 and the shell is csh. My intent is to perform 2 tasks if a condition is not satisfied. I'm using the one liner syntax for if (one liner because I need to use this as an alias later). However, my observation is that this simply does not work:...

Hi, I'm trying the "make distclean" comand. but I allways get this error: if I use the "make clean" I get the same error. Can someone teach me to use this commands, please? Thanks a lot, João

Customizing can be interesting and of course there is no shortage of things you can customize. Here is an example: #launch gnome-terminal, resize to 80 wide 12 tall, then launch irb gnome-terminal --geometry=80x12 -x irb It wouldn't be much fun to type that every time so I just put it into a launcher of its own and then I'm only one...

Hi All, I am stuck with one tricky situation here. The situation is as follows:- I have two files, both files have two columns - space seperated key value pairs. Now say files are f1 and f2. and columns in f1 are f1c1, f1c2; and columns in f2 are f2c1 and f2c2.

Hi, i've never used linux before, so what i have is a really basic question Basically i've been qiven a linux machine (more specifically Red Hat linux). This machine has everything installed, i.e. MySQL, apache and PHP. I already know that apache (httpd) and mysql (mysqld) are running as a service, now what i'm trying to do is to start the...

I have an application (written by a contractor for me) that shows as a single process when I run top, but when I run htop it shows from 19 (under light load) up to 76 processes when under heavy load. I am assuming they are processes because each one, under htop, shows a unique PID. Under top there is only one PID. Many of the "processes" being...

In this sequence at the command prompt $ x=() $ { while read; do x+=("$REPLY"); done; } <<<"$(ls)" $ printf 'count=%d\n' ${#x} count=432 $ wc -l <(ls) 432 /dev/fd/63 $ $ $ { while read; do x+=("$REPLY"); done; } <(ls)

I wanted to know which is the lastest stable version of gcc that can be used for my application to be realsed

I've program(P1) that creates two threads say t1 and t2. t1 again spawns few threads, I want to know all threads working under P1(directly or indirectly), I also trued one command ps -eLF | grep P1 it shows me the list : P1, P1(this is first thread), P1(this is second thread) For the list displayed above pid will be same. How do I display...