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I had a laptop (sony vaio fs920) with Windows XP Home Edition. Right from the start i was having problems; start up took 5min+ and shut down took about the same. everything about it was just slow. So i downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 and did a complete install and deleted windows all together. I've been happy with ubuntu since i installed it, but now im...

I'm trying to hook up a HP7550 pen plotter to my iMac running Tiger 10.4 via a USB to RS232 adapter. Can someone tell me how to set a tty port using stty? I need to set the port /dev/cu.usbserial to 9600 baud Xon/Xof Full Duplex 8 bit parity Odd

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone can spot some errors in this script. I'm only really interested in Syntax errors (or logical ones if they are blatant!) I have not run this script yet, the Linux machine is not yet available. I'm looking for a heads up on obvious syntax errors..

I could not delete a file inside a directory. (L)SUMV3/sparse/src/stk/dmg_meta_doc$ ls -lrt total 4876 -rwxrwxrwx 1 rragave gposumdv 30301 Jul 13 06:51 Makefile -rwxrwxrwx 1 rragave gposumdv 28792 Jul 13 06:53 dmg_docfns.o -rwxrwxrwx 1 rragave gposumdv 27475 Jul 24 13:47 dmg_flexicheckswapclear.cc -rw-rw-r-- 1 rragave ...

Hi, I'm wondering what kind of things do I need to look out for when converting my .cmg scripts to Unix scripts. (I want the same inputs and outputs, but I'm now running on a Unix Server. I know that the scripts are basically similar, and that a lot of the commands will probably remain the same, but I'm too unfamiliar with shell commands to...

hai guys, i need to know abt maradns.Have u ever heard of it.i read in a review that more than the bind that is used in DNS the maradns helps us.is it right> But its home site it states that it is the more esiest way to configure a dns cum the most secure one too.Please help me out yaar if any one knows abt it.About its configuration,useful...

hai guys, i need to know abt maradns.Have u ever heard of it.i read in a review that more than the bind that is used in DNS the maradns helps us.is it right> But its home site it states that it is the more esiest way to configure a dns cum the most secure one too.Please help me out yaar if any one knows abt it.About its configuration,useful...

Hi ! I decide to perform project on LINUX on SYSTEM DOMAIN... PLZ suggest me some BOOKS / LINKS so tht i wll understand important concepts of LINUX. i m familiar to WINDOWS... also some sort of H/W information... good in C ,C++PROGRAMMING

I am very new to UNIX. I need a script that searches for a text file with most occurrences of a given keyword.

HI! I 'm working on linux .I hv difficulty for picking particular line from a file... I like to make some manipulation on LINE such as 3 sda7 333333 66666 888888 444444 from file /PROC/DISKSTATS how I should proceed??? PLZ reply me if u hv answer...... i m waiting.......

I need help with my scripts. I am currently running a configuration script with multiple If Then statements using grep to check for the existance of a particulare set of text. If grep returns a null value then the script copies a madified version of the file over the existing file. This is actually working well, but I would rather just edit the...

Hi I've found that my script to start sybase isn't working at all. Infact, with some debugging, I've found that it's dying here at the first variable defenition (I found this by logging messages to a file, the script is being called, and a echo message is appearing in the file but the echo message after the first "export variable" statement...

why is it that when i used the value with zero,comparing two integers,it seems that i got the wrong ouput? Please consider the ff: #!/bin/ksh echo "63918000009" > k cat k read x < k (( aj=63918000009 )) if

I have been trying to run the following script to set and export env variables but I can't get it to work. ( on both RHEL 3 and 4). export ORACLE_SID=infra export ORACLE_HOME=$HOME/infra export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin I have tried using : #!/bin/ksh -x ,#!/bin/bash or #!/bin/sh before the commands but nothing works. I even tried...

Iam a sys admin in a firm and iam asked to give a configuration list of a server profile. As there are a lot of new servers now a days and also from the net i got some information still iam confused with it. About my organization iam having 200 systems connected on lan network of which 50 systems use internet connection. Most of the systems use...

Hi ! I decide to perform project on LINUX on SYSTEM DOMAIN... PLZ suggest me some BOOKS / LINKS so tht i wll understand important concepts of LINUX. i m familiar to WINDOWS... also some sort of H/W information... good in C ,C++PROGRAMMING

Hi I have one file. I want to display only duplicate records on my terminal as well as I want to remove unique lines. Which command do i need to execute to get this output? Kindly help me soon. Thanks

Hi All, I want to check the permissions for two users a & b in UNIX. Which command will help me in that? I want to see which folders they have access to etc etc. Kindly help me. Cheers, Amit

Hi, I am new to SSH. I tried to connect to a server and run a command on it using SSH from a script. It asked for a password and then, it succesfully connected to the intended server. But in this process, it is asking for a password to be entered at the terminal. I wish to use this as part of a background script and hence would like to supply...

Hey guys. I need to find some kind of application that is almost like Viso but can be ran in a Linux box. any suggestions? The only thing I've found so far is something called "Dia".

Hi! First of all, I'm using a the latest Version of a FUSD Module...for my device-driver. I have the following situation: I have a PPP connection over a serial (RFCOMM-)device. That works fine! But now i want to put a DeviceDriver-Module in front of the RFCOMM-Device, so that PPP uses my DeviceDriver-Module. The Module just forwards the...

I want to Create a UNIX scripts, which will run in background and will do following activities: 1. Check for certain files, which will start with given names, in a define location. The name and location will be passed as a parameter. If such files is found, then send an email to specific person. 2. Check for certain files, which will start...

Hi I want to about Soft link and Hard Link in Linux. Thanks Vasu

Hi, I am new at this so I apologize if all is not correct. In ksh unix script I am trying to read values from text delimited file into oracle db table. I know that the read from the text file is working so that is not problem. ... IFS="^^" exec < smt_output.txt while read circuit vho ban junk device dvr; do

I am looking for the g++ command line option to gernerate an assembly listing with the C++ code embedded. Does anybody know how to get this listing?