1. Forum Support Area for Unregistered Users & Account Problems

Hotmail cleared my email account before I had a chance to activate it. Can a admin re-send the activation email or activate my username? thanks (2 Replies)

2. AIX

Hello, we recently upgraded from AIX 5.2.9 to 5.3.6 and in the process the wtmp file was cleared out. Before the upgrade the system had not been rebooted in a very long time, so i'm curious if the clearing of the file is related to the upgrade or the reboot? If it was related to the reboot is... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How can I remove all links (and just the links) from a file hierarchie (recursively)? With unlink I don't see any possibility to do that. Thanks! (4 Replies)

4. AIX

I need to delete some files which are not getting removed not even from root user -rw-r----- 1 ptml tellin 0 Jul 26 19:23 temp.out1 -rw-r----- 1 ptml tellin 0 Jul 26 19:23 temp.out -rw-r----- 1 ptml tellin 2 Jul 26 19:23 prev -rw-r----- 1... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm trying to create a Makefile that would automate remastering Knoppix distribution. As a part of the process I am mounting using linux cloop device a compressed filesystem and copy the content out of it to separate dir. However during that process I need to preserve hard links and it... (9 Replies)

6. AIX

Hello I would like to remove the APARs # instfix -ivk IY68989 IY68989 Abstract: write to mmapped space hangs Fileset bos.mp:5.3.0.30 is applied on the system. Fileset bos.mp64:5.3.0.30 is applied on the system. All filesets for IY68989 were found. # instfix -ivk IY73497 IY73497... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a requirement to fetch the length of a line within awk. I see that wc -c returns the number of bytes consumed, which is my requirement. However, the "length" function does not return the same, when I have non-ascii characters which are more than 1 byte. I have tried the below... (1 Reply)