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never mind problem solved, it was calling the login command when connected and it was the login configuration that was set to 5 seconds. Changed that to 30 and it now works :)

its doing exactly what it should be doing, the rmdir command wont delete the directory because it has files/directories inside it.

The error message is being suppresed by the option...

you could try the following:

ping -R ipaddress

which should show something like this as part of the summary heading output:

NOP
RR: xx.xx.xx.14
yy.yy.yy.2
zz.zz.zz.82...

Do you have SELinux enforcing?


getenforce


If this is set to enforcing then passwd wont work even at single user mode.


#setenforce 0
#passwd


this will turn SELinux off and...

please type in the exact command you are using and also the error message you are getting.

the -s option is what gets shown in the subject line.

if you delete everything in the...

as stated above - tells the command to expect options as it is a special character.
You need to remove the special meaning of this either by the backslash or by using quotes.


mv \-9file.jpg...

init s is your run level and defines what services are running (which for single user mode is not very many).

if you run the following command you can see what milstones are online.

#svcs...

a RUN level determines what services are started and what file systems are mounted. its like the difference between windows safe mode, safe mode with netowrking or a normal boot.

A milestone is...

the actual addition to the command is:

2> /dev/null

notice there is no space between the 2 and the >.

> means redirect standard output (stdout)
2> means redirect standard error (stderr)
...

this is sending stderr to the /dev/null file. /dev/null is basically a black hole so in essence its just not sending any error messages to your screen.

No, as Pludi described it so eloquently where i failed, your Linux system will always cache, however you cannot class this as unavailable memory.

You should class anything that is cache as free so...

ls -lart *.dat|grep -v resend | tail -1


returns the listing in ascending time modified order of only files ending in .dat, removes anything containing resend in the line, and shows only the last...

you were almost right, if you haven't got it by now try the following:


ls -a *.txt


the -a shows hidden file as well, and the * is a wild card means anything.

so *.txt is anything that...

Yes, set ACL on the vi executable for the user and remove execute permission for any user you specify