1. HP-UX

As per the man page, pstat_getdisk() call returns the number of instances, which could be 0 upon successful completion, otherwise a value of -1 is returned. Please have a look at this sample program -> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/pstat.h> int main() { int j = 0, ret; struct... (2 Replies)

2. Solaris

Hi to all! I want to learn step by step easily how to configure my Solaris for network. I know alot about Solaris Network configuration. But I have some problems. When I install Solaris, and I plug-in my network cable to Solaris. Then I run: ifconfig -a plumb then I do ifconfig bge0 dhcp... (7 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

People are misbehaving and doing things on the network they shouldn't be while at work, and it's killing the server. So the boss wants a plan on how to deal with these issues ASAP. What i need to know is how to use iptables to filter traffic coming to a specific ip... to say "this is allowed to... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a script which does a tar and sends it to another server as backup. Script is as below # Locations to be backed up. Seperate by space BACKUP_LOCATIONS=/repos/subversion BACKUP_BASE_FOLDER=/bakpool BACKUP_FILE_NAME_ROOT=svn-backup START_TIME_DISP=`date` START_TIME=`date... (11 Replies)

5. UNIX and Linux Applications

Hello All, I am using gvim ( redhat linux machine). backspace doesnot work properly. can some boby suggest a solution ? i have checked with older version. backspace works in it. Thanks Shiv (1 Reply)

6. Homework & Coursework Questions

Q. Write a script that behaves both in interactive and non interactive mode. When no arguments are supplied it picks up each C program from the directory and prints first 10 lines. It then prompts for deletion of the file. If user supplies arguments with the script , then it works on those files... (8 Replies)

7. Red Hat

Hi, I have list of files under a directory as shown below. /home/root -rw-r--r-- 1 user 0 Aug 27 06:08 rough.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user 0 Aug 27 06:08 test.sh Now when i use to read the rough.txt, i did cat r and then pressed TAB button. Below is the resulting string after pressing TAB... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a perl script that prompts for a user to enter a password before doing what it does. This works well if I call it directly from a bash script #!/bin/bash /path/to/perl/script $arg1 $arg2 But, when I try to enclose this within a while read loop, the perl script is called but... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Trying to use mv in a shell script but for some reason this does not work: for f in *.wav;do mv $f $f.bwf;done I get this: usage: mv source target mv source ... directory So it's like I'm using 'mv' wrong but I can't see how. This works so the contens of the folder is read... (4 Replies)