1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i messed up while installing freebsd into a dual os wannabe system. Now, how do i del it( so i wouldn't get prompted to choose freebsd during boot?)so that i could try installing a different flavour of linux? cheers:eek: (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I created tar files for directories using this command: tar -cvf * >tarfile what happened was I got a file tarfile with a list of the files and it took the first file in each directory and overwrote it with the actual tar file. I've been trying to figure out since yesterday what I did... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guy, In my system there were some cronjob were already scheduled. and somehow I want to enter one new cronjob with crontab. So I isssue crontab temp.txt. it scheduled that job but now it's showing me only this job with crontab -l. but I can not see the old cronjob list that already set up.... (2 Replies)

4. AIX

I have moved the etc/passwd file and we are now unable to get in to Unix - any suggestions? (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear Friends, I have messed up with my .bashrc file (something I have deleted) and now i can't login back to system.. any Idea.. I can do login with other login and password.. but I dont have root password because of security reason... If I ask root then It will take about 4 -5 days to go... (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ok, a couple weeks ago I was fixing a cron report about perl not happy with 'locale' info (LANG and LC not set). As a result, I was experimenting with setting the correct 'locale' in several areas (like /etc/sysconfig/i18n and who knows where). Somehow after a reboot, as soon as the OS starts... (3 Replies)

7. Linux

Hi, Just wanted to know if anyone else has noted that the time-stamp in the history is all out of whack.:eek: I've Ubuntu, all patched, and when I ran history, it showed me commands that I ran few weeks ago with today's date. Is this normal? Here is a snippet: .... 85 2010-06-09 09:03:31... (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Help!! Seem to have messed up my path, as I keep getting command not found error. Could someone please tell whats wrong or how to fix it. export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:$PATH ---------- Post updated at 08:34 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:50 PM ---------- ... (1 Reply)

9. AIX

I have AIX 5.3 with oracle 10g ( test server). While trying to create RAW disk for Oracle ASM I have accidentally messed with rootvg (hdisk0 & hdisk1) When I do # lspv hdisk0 0516-066 : Physical volume is not a volume group member. Check the physical volume name specified. ... (4 Replies)

10. HP-UX

OK, so I just messed myself up. Thinking the /var/opt/ignite/data/INDEX files was static, I manually edited the file and added 2 more OS's to it. During an Install it only showed the first OS (started with 11.31, 3 versions then added a 11.23, and a 11.11 stanza's). The 11.23 and 11.11 never... (2 Replies)