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can anyone help me with detailed explanation of cat /proc/meminfo and cat /proc/iomem command: MemTotal: 1018132 kB MemFree: 597464 kB Buffers: 20220 kB Cached: 197856 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 243500 kB Inactive: 121264 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB

Hi , I am want to run the shell script to run every 10 minutes of interval ,so that i have used crontab command for scheduling the shell script .. it cant works . i have checked wall command in crontab it is working properly when i try to run the shell script or even echo " name" cant to be worked using crontab. can you please help me out...

Hi all, I am using RHEL 6. When i use CAP3 software for the first time it successfully resulted. But second time when i used, it's showing "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Even after restarting and reinstalling it showing same error. When i google, i found it some memmory related problem. But no clear information. pls help me in this...

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...

How can I shutdown the system after 3 minutes automatically.

Hi! My second post, very similar to the first one. I just mounted a debian server and start to run some few scripts. They "seem" to run, but sometimes (5% of times) I am getting this error message: /home/jmd/sh/muestras.sh: line 2: Note that R0220444 is one of the files in /home/as400/muestras folder. This is /home/jmd/sh/muestras.sh:...

I am running prog with GDB - throws SIG32, why? @localhost config]# gdb prog GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.3.90-0.20030710.40rh) Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show...

I am newbie... this may be a basic question... In korn shell script, how to find the type of the file.... here is the pseudo if (filename is of type ".eml" or ".jpg") then --- do something thx in advance.

Hi I am faceing a problem with a space in file name. I want to write a script which will open a file that file contain others file name, among them few file name contain space. >cat checkfile file1 file2 new file file no

Hello I am studying the Operating system (linux) for the first time. I was asked to make free shell account with telnet facility. I made the one ,but it says that server is not providing telnet but SSH. I want to know the difference between the two? what's their purpose and is SSH can be used as substitute for telnet? If anyone know free...

Hi, I want to kill a process at 5.00 p.m . I tried using crontab. In crontab i gave like this:- 17 00 * * * kill processid.(say 1234)

Hi , How do i redirect output of topas to a file. i did not find any such option in topas command. Regards, Ashok

Hello, I want to open 5 terminals from a parent terminal and place these terminals on the screen properly so that each terminal can be viewed properly at the same time. Also, i want to execute differnet commands in each terminal. Can you help me please? Thanks, Gunjan

Hi, Did anyone can tell what is meant by 'regular file', the -f option in syntax of test? I know this is just easy to answer for you guys especially those who are very familiar in unix-scripting. > test ! -f myfile.sh > who $? - may give you a value of 1 if true, and 0 if false. I'm a bit confused which files are really regular or...

Hello. So im a little bit stuck on one of my homework questions. heres the question: Write a C Shell Script that performs the following functions. Asks the user to input a year. The script should then calculate whether or not the year is a leap year. The script should caculate whether or not it is a leap year using the following algorithm. ...

Is there any script for protecting a file in Arch Linux? I have important files that I want to, if you open them you must put a password to see the file.

Hi everyone, This is my first time posting to the UNIX form and it might be a strange request, but I believe I have most of the pieces. Here's the overall goal -- I am trying to find the links in a large web site that are linked to files over 2000k. I used the command line to find all files on the server that are larger than 2000k by...

Hi, I am using SuSe Linux. But i don't which version it is? How do i know the OS version? Thanks in advance. Regards, Ashok

I am searching for a way to sort XML data on very large files on a UNIX enviroment. Also, I am very new to XML and UNIX as I am an IBM Mainframe person. Any help or examples would be appreciated. Thanks DOLE

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...

hi..... i m doinn 1 Dimensional DCT in C. I m New to UNIX so can anybody help me to do this program in unix using C code.i hav one text file as an input which contain 8 numbers as an input.so pls give me code or some link as early as possible. thnxx in advance.....

Dear Friends, In open system call we have three arguments. First: file descriptor Second: flag Third: Mode for example we use open (fd, O_RDWR | O_CREAT , 0764) Here i used 764 only but it doesn't work fine. If i use 0764 it worked fine.

Hi everyone, I'm a using dual boot system (Linux(ubuntu) and Windows XP). A few days after installing Ubuntu, I started it and a message greeted me saying my hard disk has a problem and that it has too many "bad sectors". But when I boot Windows, I dont get this kind of error. I would really appreciate it if anyone explains this problem to me...

Hi everybody, i am getting the following error when tried to open a file. ##### Error start E297: Write error in swap file "import.pl" 681L, 23883C Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim70/ftplugin/perl.vim: line 49: E483: Cannot get temp file name Press ENTER or type command to continue

Hi am calling sqlloader inlow shell script #!/bin/sh sqlldr scott/tiger control=ulcase1.ctl log=ulcase1.log retcode=`echo $?` case "$retcode" in 0) echo "SQL*Loader execution successful" ;; 1) echo "SQL*Loader execution exited with EX_FAIL, see logfile" ;; 2) echo "SQL*Loader exectuion exited with EX_WARN, see logfile" ;; 3) echo...