1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I notice that (Mandrake) Linux and Windows do not seem to operate alike in terms of installing third party software. Windows, on one hand, creates icons and adds items to the Start Menu, with the help of the InstallShield--or equivalent, of course, but Linux, on the other hand, seems to care... (3 Replies)

2. Solaris

Greetings, I have installed the Solaris 10 in my computer, this system is really interesting, and where I can find more free programs for download to install? Anyone knows? (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to write pipe for finding out the login names and login time of the users whose login name begins with p. (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have a simple question. How do make it so i can lauch a program from the shell. For instance I want to install firefox 2 and I wanna launch it with ff2 in the terminal, so i tried this to my .bashrc file: alias ff2='/path/./firefox' and its not working as I would hope. anywho,... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi. I have a problem in running a program in linux system. This program (damaver.l86) is in the path /home/shenk/damaver/, and it needs to call another program (supcomb.l86) in another path /home/shenk/supcomb/. I tried to modified the .bash_profile, but it didn't work. The error message is always... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Are the programs written on schedulers ,thread library , process management, memory management, et al called systems programs ? How are they different from the programs that implement functions like open() , printf() , scanf() , read() .. they have a prefix sys_open, sys_close, sys_read etc , right... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have installed a program and put the stuff on /usr/local/ However when I run a script it gives an error GMT Fatal Error: /home/chrisd/Dimech/GMT4.5.2/share/PS_font_info.d: No such file or directory (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi does anyone know some good shell scripting programs, like visual studio for C++/C#? (8 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey guys, Suppose i run passwd via bash shell. It is a suid program, which temporarily runs as root(owner) and modifies the user entries. However, when i write a C file and give 4755 permission and root ownership to the 'a.out' file , it doesn't run as root in bash shell. I verified this by... (2 Replies)