[unix] Forum Topics

Hi Everybody, I am primarily a Java/Oracle/UNIX developer working for a telecoms company, but I get my fingers in almost all the pies :) I have been developing in Java and Oracle for a few years now, though I have worked with *NIX environments for much longer than that. I …

Hello, I am new here, and this web site looks great! I hope I'm not taking up too much of your time, I just had a couple questions relating to networking Linux and using a Unix OS called OpenBSD. Is there a best Linux recommended to use for file servers? …

HI, I have a vc++ project with all its files which includes -header files,& .dll files. I want to export these files to a unix system. i am sure i can do that, but i am looking for equivalent method for aligned aligned_malloc() in unix. aligned_malloc() is a vc++/windows method …

is there a command to bring up the last command typed?

When I right-click on the desktop, I see the following things: Bookmarks Run Command... Windows Configure Desktop Switch User Lock Session Log Out "Kamex" I'm curious, is there possibly a way to modify this menu? I don't use Konquerer any more, so one thing I'd like to do is remove …

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[url]http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html[/url] A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this "unusual" event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested …

Hi, After completing my Date class, I realize that I am suffering from the 2038 problem. (As described here-> [url="http://pw1.netcom.com/~rogermw/Y2038.html"]http://pw1.netcom.com/~rogermw/Y2038.html[/url]). Does anyone know which libraries (or which code) I need to switch to on *nix systems to overcome this? (I know windows has someting like mktime64 (instead of mktime). Google …

Hi, I think that this is quite simple, but I have lost the right code to enter at this point. My Mac won't boot past the UNIX command line and gives the following: /etc/master.passwd: Not a directory /etc/master.passwd: Not a directory -sh: /etc/profile: Not a directory -sh-2.05b# Then a command …

omg i need help so bad. I've been working on a school project for what seems like an eternity and i'm close to deadline. Using FIFO's (i ahve to) to communicate between parent and child proc's. Right now I'm stuck on a read/write. fifomsg is a struct with int length …

Studying Computer Science on Unix platform is ussually fun expect days when you get stuck. And life get [B]tough[/B], this is one of my tough days. To make life easier with my c++ programming I wanted to use the [B]make[/B] tool under unix. I have 5 fieles : - student.h …

Hey guys, i am a noobie and i am after some very much anticipated help. I currently attend uni and working on a project for a subject called unix based engineering. The basic problem is; I have an input file and this input file contains a series of MOSFET parameters …

Does anyone know how to get a list of users that have resource open locally? I know that if you use MMC and manage the computer that hosts the resource you can see remote users, but local users do not show up. For instance... If I open a file from …

[COLOR=Blue][B]Is the following code correct:[/B][/COLOR] [CODE] char * cmd="ls -l"; /* Unix command used for listing */ char * spCmd; spCmd = strtok(cmd , " ");/* it divides the cmd in to tokens */ execvp(spCmd[0] , spCmd);[/CODE] [COLOR=Blue][B]output of this code to execute command that is written in cmd ?[/B][/COLOR] …

Hi, I Am A Third Year Computer Engineering Student. I Am Interested In Doing Some Project On Unix Platform For My Final Year I Need Help In Selecting The Topic . Please Help Me.

I read about Java being multi-platform language but could not confirm this. If I compile and make .cla files in Windows OS and then run these on Unix OS will run fine ? Or I need to install some components.

I´ve tried searching for freeBSD running from the CD but haven´t found one except from Brasil. Suggestions?

I recently purchased a software package that restricts access to one or many directories on my hosted server. The server is Unix based. The directory that is restricted contains an .htaccess file that uses Apache. Before I modified the below code, when I tried to access a restricted HTML file, …

Okie, I'm just finish configure my postfix. My postfix is MTA for my MUA Squirrelmail. I'm using Linux RedHat 9.0 OS. Somehow I'm only able to send mail but not able to receive mail. Plus I recognize when I send mail to a mailbox to such as Bellsouth.net or yahoo.com.. …

I am a new member of the free Unix sdf.lonestar.org. I tried to compile and run a C++ program I wrote, but it would not let me compile. I wonder if it's because I haven't paid the $36. Arpa membership fee yet. Does anyone know if this is the problem??? …

1)UNIX operating system uses [B]Round robin Time slicing with multilevel feed back.[/B] Assume that there are [B]10 processes [/B] waiting in a queue which is implemented as a [B]linked list of PCB’s [/B] ( process control blocks). Assume the PCB have information about [B]Process ID , CPU burst time required …

does anyone here know much about linspire. io have thought installing it on my laptop. but at the same time i am trying to teach myself how to program(vb.net, and java). how would running linspire work with those languages. if i went to that should i start trying to learn …

I will appreciate any help on the following. Please reply to [email][email protected][/email] as well. I am trying to program something that use huge integer matrices, say 100x1500. I can do it in Unix pascal, but the Unix machines are slow. I also have borland pascal 7.0, but all I could …

I am having a problem with my make I ran the make depend with no errors but when I ran the make it it gave me an error of ld fatal library -llog_mgr not found.

Can somebody help me in getting cursor position using C++ Programming language on a UNIX operating system. :cool:

Hi there, Does any one know a Perl regular expresson to ignore specific string from a log file. For example i want to use this simple unix command using perl regular expression egrep -i -n "error|fatal" logfile.log |\egrep -v "user not found" i.e. it should ignore log file entry "Error …

The installation instructions to install php on a unix os is /.configure --with options make make install but there is no make file in the directory can i get some help please get some help

Hi guys, i'm trying to write a script for following purpose. shell program will be used by Linux/Unix sysadmins to search for SUID/SGID files. The default directory to search is the present working directory, however, the user may include a directory name on the command line as an alternative. Also, …

HELP! We are 8 years into a 12-year study, and our original computers are failing. There is a serious possibility that the study will not be completed, because we cannot find computers which are compatible with our equipment and which can do the job. We need to be able to …

STILL trying to figure out how to link files in C++ in a UNIX environment!! i just don't get it. how do i make .o files? what are they for? how do you "link" them with other stuff and "run" them. all i am capable of is g++ somepgm.C and …

hi there. i am on a UNIX system and am writing a template code called Array.h. it is called by a Test2.C file which does nothing more than declare a T object of type int. Array<int>. i am getting all kinds of compile errors. have been over it and over …

I created this 2d array consisting of morsecodes: char m[57][6] = {".-..-.", "", "", "", "", ".----.", "-.--.-", "-.--.-", "", "", "--..--", "-....-", ".-.-.-", "-..-.", "-----", ".----", "..---", "...--", "....-", ".....", "-....", "--...", "---..", "----.", "---...", "", "", "", "", "..--..", "", ".-", "-...", "-.-.", "-..", ".", "..-.", "--.", "....", …

I am looking for some instructions or guidelines to use in rebuilding a Unix machine that has been compromised. If anyone knows of any links to pages that have either rebuild or how to re-install the OS, please share. thanks

i have been working on this all DAY LONG. i am new to C++ and Unix and need to write this little tiny code in both. i am tripping all over myself with references and dereferences and operator overloads .... if anyone could help me decipher what my problem(s) are, …

hi, i am REALLY new to C++ and don't really understand much of anything about the pointers and references and the way the files are set up. HOWEVER, i have an assignment to do that SHOULD help me get a grasp on some of the key concepts before we go …

Can someone tell me what is Open Bsd and Free Bsd? Contents from the book and from the web tells me two different things. Would you mind to clarify the terms for me?? Thank you! Because i'm still very vague about it.

hi there. i am new to C++ AND unix. this assignment that i have is really really easy, but the specifics of C++ and getting around in Unix is making it really hard and time consuming. i have a really small program that should be working, but i am getting …

I have multiple user accounts on my Mac (533 MHz G4) for my family members. We use the logical place, Users Shared, to store stuff we all want to, well, share. The problem is that every time I try to delete or move (I'm assuming a move is treateed as …

Hi, Detail: Language: C++ OS: Unix based, DOS/Windows Status: Begginer Q/ How do I comunicate 2 diferent app, what I want is to call one program from another one, and get an answer from the second one, maybe send another call depending on the answer. For example, comunicate with mysql, …

How can I login remotely and force a command/script to run in a particular X Server when are multiple X Servers running? Here's what I want to do: Force my desktop to be displayed on multiple remote machines, each of which has multiple X Servers running simultaneously. That is, force …

Hiya, Ok, I really need help now. I want to learn Php programming. I use windows but I guess the Php scripts I write will be running on Unix/Linux since most webservers of this world are Uniz/linux. Now, my question is : Since there are 2 Php versions (one for …

Hello, I am trying to write a tee filter in C language, almost like the UNIX utility. But I have no idea where to begin can anybody give me a direction I should start in.

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Ok, for a lab I have to write the UNIX more filter in C, but I have got everything done execpt one thing. I only hvae it to where it can read 20 lines at a time. But what I want to do is if argv[1] == -Pxx where xx …

Does anybody have a source code for the MORE filter used on Linux, because I am curious as to how it works.

What I want to do is call the ls command in Unix and have the output piped into a file? It won't work however, can anyone tell me why or if there is another way other than the one below (that doesn't work) to do it? system ("ls -author >>tmp.txt"); …

#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int i,k,type; char buffer[100],l,line[50]; struct student { char name[20]; int age; int id; }; struct student st[2],temp,*sp; int sort(struct student *p) { *sp=st[0]; p->age; for(i=0; i<l; i++) { if(st[i].age<st[i+1].age) break; else if(st[i].age>st[i+1].age) { temp=st[i]; st[i]=st[i+1]; st[i+1]=temp; }break; } printf("\t\tsorted student information\n--------------------------\n"); printf("%d",st[i].age); return(0); } int main() …

HELP! ibook G3 recently updated OSX 10.2 to 10.2.8, and also security updates - suddenly froze, and now will only startup via OSX startup screen directly into Darwin terminal window. I can login; and get a welcome to Darwin message, but don't know how to get back to the visual …

PLEASE HELP ME, I WANT TO WRITE A C PROGRAM TO EMULATE THE Is -L -A -F UNIX COMMAND THAT WILL DISPLAY ALL FILES IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY INCLUDING INVISIBLE FILES, THEIR ACCESS PRIVILEGES, AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING WHICH ARE FILES AND WHICH ARE SUB-DIRECTORIES. but i dont want to …

Hi, I am new in OS programming and I need some links for newbie OS programming. With detailed explanation of syscalls (I don’t ask for ready code , just explanation and some example code if exist ) I try google but I didn’t found match things (nothing for a newbie …