1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Why does /usr/games/banner have a man page??? And why in the name of Ritchie is it in /usr/games?? Man, what a crappy game... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Even as a newly born newbie, I know it sounds as if I'm asking how many shoes in a pair, but such is life. I'm trying to discover java programming with osx and have only previously done simple programming with basic. I have had shell experience with the amiga years ago so I get the idea of using a... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have Solaris 9 box that I am trying to clean up to use as an apache web server. In the process of attempting to remove an old copy of apache in /usr/local I have run into a problem. Logged in as root (or anything else) when trying to remove, chmod or chown anything in the /usr filesystem - the... (4 Replies)

4. Solaris

when I give the following commmand under cd /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin #file eeprom file: syntax error at line 1: `"\302^SÒ^D`^\^P\302ɢ^D`(^B\302^Y\302¥à\302"\302^^ê^D`^X^P\302â^D`' unexpected I had restored from tape. system is booting fine and showing no errors. Please help Thanks Jaya (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How and where do I get the log of any user is logged in my system? (2 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi all, below is the problem details: ora10g@CNORACLE1>which ld /usr/ucb/ld ora10g@CNORACLE1>cd /usr/ccs/bin ora10g@CNORACLE1>ln -s /usr/ucb/ld ld ln: cannot create ld: File exists ora10g@CNORACLE1> how to link it to /usr/ccs/bin? (6 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi Guys, OS:- Solaris 10 64Bit I have a small query. On one server a user is facing sed command issue. He gets error regarding sed for this location /users/hoy/2999/batch5/bin/internal.sh: /usr/local/bin/sed: not found How ever the sed is actually present at this location on server:-... (13 Replies)

8. BSD

I'm not sure if this is the default behavior for the ld command, but it does not seem to be looking in /usr/local/lib for shared libraries. I was trying to compile the latest version of Kanatest from svn. The autorgen.sh script seems to exit without too much trouble: $ ./autogen.sh checking... (2 Replies)

9. OS X (Apple)

OSX uses its own directory strecture on the BSD core, for example /Users/Bob_Alice/. but legacy Unix structure /usr/... remains. Adding confustion, some Unix books say /usr/ was never intended for specific users. and others show it being used for Bor or Alice. I am not sure where to put my third... (5 Replies)