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Hi, I wrote a shell script where I connect to an oracle db(the connection works because I able to see the DBMS output) and I execute a procedure, but I am not able to get the return value from that procedure into one of the shell variables (i understand that procedure do not return values but i am using IN OUT and i want this out value to go...

Hi, Im using gdb for debugging my application.. I was able to debug child process(when fork comes) .. and in child process we have an exec call... So the problem is, when the control come to exec , the exec process is executing at a time... I could not debug the exec. process... So, is there any way to debug the exec process

Are Linux and Unix the same OS? If not which one is used more widely in the software industry today. Thank you

hi there, i m trying to figure out how to use the h/w peformance monitoring counters?? like pfmon sort of tools .... i have got intel procesor ,and linux OS . i want to find how to use the h/w counters for finding the cache hit, cache accesses etc. type of other info regarding some application program ... can anyone help how to use the...

Hi, I got a Samba server configured on my Fedora 7 with LDAP authentication, when i try to login with a user that exists on the LDAP but doesn't exists on the system it just gives this msg: passdb/pdb_get_set.cdb_get_group_sid(211) pdb_get_group_sid: Failed to find Unix account for drocha Thing is that i got another PC with Centos...

Hi! Is there a way to extract or guess a C function's prototype from a shared library (.so) if no related .h header is provided? I suppose it is difficult to get the exact original prototype but I'd appreciate if I could obtain at least the amount of arguments and some clue about respective types of arguments and return value. Rus.

Hi Experts, In a UNIX shell script a function is called with the parameter &2. f_check &2 Please help me to understand what does the above call do. what does &2 mean there? Thanks in Advance,

I just installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my computer today. I have both Ubuntu and Windows on my computer. It worked fine for a while, both Ubuntu and Windows booted properly. But i went to go use Windows, and everytime I select "Windows XP Home Edition" The computer restarts and goes to the boot menu again. Anyone know what the problem might be?

hey all i currently have a problem with my ip cops vpn setup.... heres the details.. im running ipcop version 1.4.15 on one machine and 1.4.14 on the other, (will update later on) i have been able to ping both however i cant trace route all the way through to the second machine, it times out on the second last jump to the second ipcop. ...

i am tryin to install ubuntu on a windows 98 computer. when i try to do this i get a mesage that says /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control is turned off what do i need to do to get past this so i can install it on my computer? Thanks David

Dear all.. I need some Help to complete my project on implimentation of IDEA algorithim in UNIX.

I am going to use AIX in my new job. I was studying Red Hat Linux, but I don not know if I should quit LINUX and study AIX and Solris. What is the best combination: AIX and Solaris 10 or AIX and Red Hat Linux.

Hi.. I bought this model of laptop and had a difficulty installing windows XP onto it which has a SATA type of hard disk.The installer couldn't find the presence of the SATA. After finding some help from net, I was able to load some drivers to run in normally as usual windows installation. Now I want to install fedora-core or some other...

Hi I want a program to get any column(For example created date of the file) that was given by ls -lrt command... Plz Help me out

Hi, I am new to linux programming. I am using c to develop a program that aims to create many children in order to communicate with their parents through pipes I need the parent to wait for all the children to finish processing and write to their parent using the appropriate pipe for each children. I know that I may use the select function...

Hi I am trying to copy hidden file but i am not seeing anything to copy hidden files Could somebody help me with this please.

Hi All actually im new to linux. im writting some codes to display the exe file version. can any body help me by saying what is the system call we r using in linux to get file versio. Thank you all.

Hi to all, Firstly I must state my knowledge of php is limited but I am a quick learner. I have taken on the task of finishing a friends website due to his untimely passing and have hit a problem with the completion of his work. The site involves the uploading of a picture, jpg, png or gif. as part of an order process. The files involved...

Hi all, im bit new to unix, and now im trying to get one output of one varieble in a function (ksh script), but it seems to have problems with pipe character or maybe a space. Could u please give me some advice how to get through this? thanks MONITOR() { grep_rule=$1 echo "grep_rule=$1" # in the output i get correctly the string :...

plz let me know what is a port in unix networking whether it a virtual thing or programming aspects. we always use port with number,but what is port mean what should be the definition of port thanx with regards chinmaya

Hi All, What this command will do? exec 2>&1

hi all , i have tried using "time cmd" in linux to find out the time taken to execute some command in linux ...but the problem is that it always returns some different values for all the system,real and user times !!! so can anyone suggest any accurate method of finding the time to execute some a.out file??

When i put the Ubuntu CD in and it starts up, it says that it is unable to find RSDP, is there any way that i can go in and change something for it to install?

How to set up hostname alias in HP-UX..

Hi, i'm trying to get run a simple script to find the java version. this is what i wrote: #!/bin/csh set REQUIRED_VERSION=1.5 set JAVA=$JAVA_HOME if ($#JAVA>0) then