[unix] Forum Topics

Hi guys, Trying to set up a cron job using [this tutorial](http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how_to_-_import_manufacturers_or_any_other_option_attribute_set) I have replaced {my/magento/install} with my site path and tried to execute it as a unix command. /usr/bin cd /{/var/sites/e/mysite.com}/shell/; php -f attributeimport.php -- --attribute manufacturer --file ../manufacturers.txt; It gives me an error: Error: The command you entered …

I have a backup program that used to work reasonably well. It used copyfileex to copy files from one unix machine to another. Recently it has been maxing out at about 5Mb/s So I changed to SHFileOperation and found it averages about 80Mb/s This is using delphi 7 on windows …

so there 3 questions that I'm really confused, anyone familiar with unix want help? 1. Each file system in UNIX has at least one table that identifies file in it, the entries are called i-nodes.where are these inodes resides?(location) 2. What operation would cause the i-nodes of a file, say …

Hey everyone. Long story short i installed Centos web panel. Its amazing so far. This is my second time installing it as i messed something up the first time, first time i was able to change the apache template in each directory itself and it would change. Now i cant...I …

can unix is a version of linux operating system?? any one please explain it

Is there a way to set an NFS shared directory to my recursivly chared via NFS, that directory including sub directories?

hi i am required to write a program in mips assembler where i am to create a checkerboard which is too be saved and written to a bmp file, compile this program it has a problem with writing the file because it jumps straight to my error message could someone …

Group, I'm now having to merge several of these text files together. At the end of each of the text files is a line that says "End of Report". I need to eliminate this line completely. This code does the merge for me: RestranName = getRestranName(0) RestranName2 = getRestranName(1) System.IO.File.AppendAllText(RestranName2, …

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I need to use the tar command to unpack a .tar.gz file and I need to do it from root but when the files unpack I want them to be owned by a specific user, not the root user. Can someone give me a hand?. I found the man pages …

Hello Group! I am in need of converting a "text" file created by a UNIX based program (it is only semi-formatted) and put it into a more-formatted text (.txt) file. Put a different way, this needs to be converted such that it can be opened in Notepad and it be …

Hi All, I am very new to C Programming. I am writing a C Program to run in an UNIX machine which is used to Archive Log files if it exceeds a particular Size. The thing is the program has to get the details of the file like file name, …

As the title suggests, I'm looking for a command line text editor with syntax highlighting. I don't have a GUI installed and I don't intend to install one which is why I need a command line one. I usually use nano for my text editing but this doesn't come with …

Hello everyone! Is there a way in VBA to find a file name that has an unknown portion to it? Let me explain: Our computer system is UNIX based. It is creating a text file for us that uses the date, the hour, minutes and seconds that the file was …

Hi. am starting out with network programming and unix network programming book. all its trying to do is connect to server and read time, but when i run it it says : 'connect error: Connection refused' Here's the code : #include "unp.h" int main(int argc, char **argv) { int sockfd, …

Hello folks, I am currently in 2nd year of Masters Degree and I am expected to develop a project this year from the given topics. I find Command Based text editor like vi fascinating as others were boring. So, here is the project definition. **In this project you are expected …

Hello , Iam looking for a command on the Solaris to free up unwanted swap memory, does any one know the command ? On linux/unix , we have command sync ; echo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, do we have similar one on Solaris ? Thanks, Jai.

hello people daniweb....just want to ask honest oppinions from you guys, because this has been bugging me for years. I've been a PHP developer for 5 year using windows. So far so good. i am able to accomplish the task at hand. but there's always back of my head saying, …

I am working on a shell script that takes a single command line parameter, a file path (might be relative or absolute). The script should examine that file and print a single line consisting of the phrase: Windows ASCII if the files is an ASCII text file with CR/LF line …

I worked for 20 years in hardware and twenty odd now in software, so change is an old friend. I consult on UNIX/LINUX to a variety of industries, write lots of bits for my own needs, love to help others over their hurdles.

Hi Guys, I'm just wondering if I can install bandwidthd using Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) DAV/2 Phusion_Passenger/4.0.46 configured? Thanks

Is this a good example of using multiple pipes. I need to fork 3 children. Would I just need to repeat the process in between the hyphens? Where would I add extra sleeps? Is it a bad idea to use WEXITSTATUS and WIFEXITED? Can anyone spot any errors? #include <stdio.h> …

Hey, I'm trying to figure out how to get this kind of program to work, it's supposed to be a UNIX style program in the sense that everything is command line driven. What I'm trying to get it to do is when the function is called it takes the input …

i want to make a time capturing limit of airodump-ng using the timeout command of UNIX but it just gave a empty terminal screen! Heres the simple perl script #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $interface="eth1"; my $moninterface="prism0"; open(FILE, ">result.txt") or die "Failed to create a file!\n"; print FILE `iwlist …

Why does Linux, looks like Macintosh? I am in classroom, there are 2 Macintosh users, then me, with Linux openSUSE/Ubuntu and Mint then rest of Windows 7/8. So, one of Macintosh users came standing behind my screen (everybody in the class is stalking one another, as if it was normal, …

How to read oracle control file's data using a shell script? Shell script is in Unix.

Hello, I recently started using vim, and decided it was about time to check out some plugins. I am still not very familiar, so my problems could be related to that fact! I started by installing vundle and using it I have installed a few top rated plugins, when I …

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I put this in the Unix catagory, however I beleive Windows pipes also can perform atomic writes - correct me if I'm wrong! Say I'm trying to save a large stream of information onto a filesystem. This filesystem might be local, it might be LTFS (a tape filesystem. Here, seeks …

Hi, I want to write a sniffer program which sniffs the packet from a Unix socket. Is it possible? I have written a small server and client programs using unix socket (sockaddr_un). Now I want to write a sniffer program which sniffs the packet from the socket. Am not able …

Hi, just to find out if any of you gurus have been coding in C in a UNIX environment with a Raima database? Will want to lean on someone for guidance

It's a server-client code. The client should wait for the server, and if there's no response, then send a new request. There's a 2 second wait. It's UNIX. I've been looking at some select() examples, but I'm not really sure... I found this example. #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/time.h> …

[Click Here](null)Hello dani. I know how to write to a file using redirection. But I am unable to write a record to every new line. I want it this way alex amsterdam 800 7 But I am ending up putting everything in a new line, I mean the fields or …

Hey All What is the equivilant of romaing profiles in windows server for Unix/Linux? Or how would i go about storing user accounts in a centralise location on the network so regardless of what machine users log onto on the network, they have the same desktop experiance? Thanks

I am unable to write a text file from a windows PC to a folder in Unix. I am told I have no permission. I can see the unix server from network and browse to the folder but I cannot write to it. The permissions of the folder on the …

Hi everybody! These days I've been solving the task of sending the bunch of files specified by unix filespec convention (all metacharacters allowed) to the remote host using ftp. I'm thinking of such concept/design, where the main bash script executes the following subtasks: (1) Expansion of command line arguments to …

I have this string " țara " which contains a character ț which is stored on 2 bytes. When i do in linux : hexdump -C file that contains the string it shows : 00000000 c8 9b 61 72 61 |..ara| 00000005 It is normaly to view c8 and 9b …

Hi friends, In Windows if we create an exe with MSVC6.0 a corresponding ".lib" file is generated. This file can be used for accessing (linking) the classes defined within that exe from some outside libraries (dll). Now in unix platform (ie, Red Hat Linux), how can we use that technique. …

Hello, I am writing a little script that needs to get the timezone from an rss feed, and I am using [URL="http://www.feedparser.org/"]Feed Parser[/URL] to parse the rss feeds. The way that I am converting the date into Unix Epoch time is: [CODE] feedDate = feed['feed'].get('updated_parsed') or feed.entries[0].get('updated_parsed') feedDate = mktime(datetime(*feedDate[0:6]).timetuple())[/CODE] …

I was having a little trouble with parsing my command upon input, I'm new to C so any help would be greatful! Here is what i have so far i'm trying to make a simple unix shell char*token; while(1){ //prints users prompt printf("\n%s@myshell:%s>", username,curDirect); //gets string from command line fgets(buffer, …

My old hard drive with Linux Mint 15 Olivia refused to boot yesterday: kernel panic etc. I tried to repair the file system and now some shared libraries are missing. On this computer, I have a brand new second hard drive with Kubuntu 13.10 freshly installed. From this OS, I can …

What differece between unix and linux?

2^64 / (1024^2) = 17.592.186.044.416MB = 16 exabytes 2^32 / (1024^2) = 4.096MB = 4 gigabytes 2^16 / (1024^2) = 0,0625MB = 64 kilobytes 2^8 / (1024^2) = 0,000244140625MB = 0,25 kilobytes = 256 bytes **How the heck you guys managed to do anything on "computers" which had maximum of …

Is this a "typedef" problem? This is the definition in one file. typedef BYTE SOCKET; //Socket descriptor BYTE is defined elsewhere as type char. (I made sure the file where SOCKET is assigned a type is included in the file the problem is in.) This is one place it is …

Hello, I have one "**tar.Z**" file. Objective is to unzip it by shell script and check the date. * archive: filename_20140103_1540.tar.Z #!/bin/bash cd $REP_DATAS/path u=$(date +%u) if [ ${u} -eq 1 ] ; then dateQ=`date --date='-3 day' +'%Y%m%d_%H%m'` else dateQ=`date --date='-1 day' +'%Y%m%d_%H%m'` fi tar xvf filename_"dateQ".tar.Z > error: > …

A program which has the main process as Director process, which reads a file containing marks of all quizzes of all sections and creates x number of Manager processes. Each Manager process will take care of solving for a section. Each manager process will create y number of worker process …

Hi all, What is the difference between vi or nano for editing a file? In your own opinion? I always used vi for editing files but some people say it's better to use nano. Is it just the user preference?

I am trying to write a multiline string into a text file but it does not appear as multi-line text. Here's my code $hostname = "localhost"; $username = "root"; $password = "sample"; $dbname = "code"; $code = <<< THECODE ; This is the main configuration file for your web app …

hello sir, I have doubt that how to redirect the ouput text of a command (while working on unix cmd prompt) to a file using python.please help me with sample code.