1. Programming

I have a question about C program for Unix: Do we have to intialize every variable before we use them in C? I thought we have to untill I found some programs are not intialize the variable before they were used. (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i m trying to loop a variable value, Basically i m reading variable value from an input file and using in rest of the program. Bu my problem is when i first time read value and assign to variable it works fine, but in second read it concatinate second value to first value with a LF. I want to... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Has anyone seen this message before? I have a DNS problem. Recently DNS has been moved to two new servers, which I can ping. I changed the /etc/resolv.conf to point to these boxes but now I get the *** Can't initialize resolver message. Any ideas? (2 Replies)

4. SCO

I use SCO UNIX from 2 years I need a command or procedure to make all log files empty and restart all counters like lp job number :( :confused: :( (1 Reply)

5. HP-UX

Hello Everyone, Has anyboby ever come across the problem when fd refuses to get initialised. I try to use mediainit command, the fd is being accessed (the fd's LIT is green for some secs) but then I get the message - "Initialize media command failed - permission denied" I checked the diskette,... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi can anyone tell how to initialize a file to zero (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Please can you advise on how can I initialize a variable with a line. Suppose i want to initialize x with line redirects.www.virginatlantic.com.conf Best Regards, Shazin (1 Reply)

8. SCO

Hi all Just connected a SCSI tape drive to our ScoUnix server running Unixware 7.0.1. The ID assigned to it is 3. When I open ArcServe it is saying that tape drive is not found and I cannot configure it. How can I make the tape drive accessible to the system? Thanks! (4 Replies)

9. Red Hat

What is the point of Fedora Initialize disklabel and how does it work? How do I check what my current Fedora's disklabel is initialized to? (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All, What i am trying to do is read the input file delimited by pipe and do further logic like simulating the for loop but using awk not sure if this a right approach but as i was told doing "for i in `cat $file`" is an over kill so trying to replicate the same thing using awk script below.... (6 Replies)