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when the fork system call is executed, a new process is created. The original process is called the parent process whereas the new process is called the child process. The new process consists of a copy of the address space of the parent. On success, both processes continue execution at the instruction after the fork call, with one difference, the...

I'm currently trying to read the output from a BarCode scanner. It is recognized by the system as a keyboard and I can access to its output through one of the /dev/input/eventx file. The problem is that I don't understand the output and that I would like to know how to read it with a Java program. Thanks lot for help System : Mandriva...

I wanted to use matrixs in awk and got some problem, here is some of the script code, from the BEGIN tag: row_char="a";row_char="b";row_char="c";row_char="d";row_char="e"$ row_char="h";row_char="i";row_char="j";row_char="k"; # from the proccess passage: sentence,1]=1; diffrence=4; i=7; sum_index=diffrence+i; printf("test: %d",sentence,1]);...

Is it possible to associate an application with a particular file type; e.g. open up .c, .cpp and .h files with Nedit when you double-click them from the File Browser. On Windows its easy, but on a Solaris platform, I cannot find where it would be done, if at all! Many thanks, Andy.

Hello, new to this trhead...and a couple weeks here on the forums. I see that there isn't much activity here, but I "know" there is a way to SSH in and get hardware details. What I am after is to get the total uptime of hd's I have. I lease a server and it has 3 drives. Thank-you in advance, jim

Hi All, I am new in open source platform. we are early shifted from Microsoft to RedHat Linux . But now we are facing some problem related to network (internet) Bandwidth for local Lan or group of user. how can i control this in linux platform ? Gunjan

sir i install win xp and linux in one pc. when we set time in xp it currupt in linux. i.e. linux shows wrong time while my cmos battery is working well. so please give the solution through which we can keep update proper time in both window. thanks ..................

This is a totally n00b question but I'm saying good bye to Windows slowly and I've come across where I need to own a directory but I want to give write permission to Smarty (Apache user). Right now I change ownership back and forth. I don't want to give world permissions. Do i really HAVE to create a group with me and apache in it and give...

Hi I am not able configure my webcam on my laptop. Please help me out. I tried to find some code from internet but it did not work

sir., please tell me how can we make usb bootable through linux.

Hi, I am new to Netfilter Connection Tracking System. I understood basic concept. plz send me related links to understand in detail. Thanks HNS

Is there any way to program Gnuplot into a webpage? It would be great to simply press a link button in a webpage and have a preprogrammed graph pop up. It would be even better to be able to type in an equation on the webpage and have its graph appear. Is this simply impossible because there is just no way to connect html and linux?

I've picked CentOS 5 for a research project and have been up and down centos.org looking for descriptions of its guts, processes, thread handling, kernel etc. One of the topics is "processes", that is, how it handles multi-threaded system, etc. I know CentOS and RH are close and most of the CentOS manuals point to Red Hat. Any URLs...

sir , please tell me what is the greate difference in lilo & grub boot loader. please tell me.

in linux there is a swap file generated while we open innittab file by this command :- vi etc/innittab then it is not open due to exist swap file . so please give the solution because i want to use this file and i need it in correct format .so please give solution.

Hi all, I'm fairly new to Linux and am running CentOS on my web server. I've been using mpstat to check out the processor utilization, and most of the numbers look good (as far as I can tell). Here's my mpstat output 02:31:49 PM CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %idle intr/s 02:31:49 PM all 8.70 ...

Hi, I have written a shell script, in which I am connecting to the oracle database and doing some manipulation. while I am running the script, its showing me the messages I am displaying in the script as well the Oracle messages. But I dont want to display the oracle messages. Please let me know how to do this. Here I am pasting the output ...

Hi there, Well, I really need help from someone here, and hope that someone will answer my question and solve my problem. I know it's very common question and being asked by many developers: Basically i keep getting warning message and unable to send out email: Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "mail.xxxx.com" port 25,...

Can any one tell me how to get the column heading when we type 'ls -ltr ' to list the files in a particular directory.. Thanks in advance

Hi, Could anyone please let me know what does it mean by the following statement in solaris shell scripting. $PROMPT " Select an option: " read ans db_option=${ans:=0} I wanted to know the interpretation for this last line. what does it mean by :=0

Hello, From many few days whenever I tried installing Xubuntu on my PC, I failed as Xubuntu installer simply couldnot startup. Whenever I booted from Xubuntu Cd both Live CD and Xubuntu installation refused to start. Both live CD and install routine initiated till a certain point then nothing happened for atleast 1 hour (I tried this many...

Hello, I recently installed Xubuntu and really liked it. But on my 256 MB RAM PC :( it is pretty slow and so I feel like I am on a really slow machine. I dont like (or crave for) graphics. I only want to use my linux box for mostly programming. I want a full speed + stable + linux system. And so please suggest me low memory (i.e. fastest)...

Hi I am trying out FreeBSD and don't know much scripting - I am trying to build some programs from the ports. Now in linux I could do something like ./configure --abcdef --ghijkl then "make install", and the docs for various programs also tell me how to config in this way. What is the equivalent for FreeBSD ports? I have tried something...

Hi My program is running, how can i check what are the shared library it has loaded. Actually, i want to check whether a particular shared library has been loaded or not. How do i do that. Thanks in advance. Regards, Ashok

Which of the following is the best Linux OS for a Core2 Duo S/M with XP 64 bit installed? Fedora 7,Ubuntu or OpenSUSE?