1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

We are experiencing several startup problems at boot time. In our /etc/rc.d/boot script we have "swapon -a -v &> /dev/null/' (without the quotes). We have also added echo statements to make it visible on the HMC during IPL. The echo statements are seen but there no messages for the swapon... (1 Reply)

2. SuSE

I've got SUSE 9 installed on a removable hard drive and the system is up and running fine. I'm trying to copy stuff off a CD onto one of my Linux partitions but I am getting an errors : * Could not read /media/cdrom/file1.tar.tar I can browse to the file location on the CD by using the... (11 Replies)

3. SuSE

Hi every one, I recently installed Suse 9.1 and added two users during installation with out problems. I have tried to add another user using the following cmd: 'useradd pite' and 'passwd xxxx' and got a message new user and password added. But when i tried to create a directory using... (3 Replies)

4. Linux

Hello~ I recently got a class of Linux. Im running Red Hat Linux. Can you guys help me out on the file extensions, and what they mean. Well the most common ones. Also, how the file system works. I know the '/' is like the beginning of everything. This sounds a little stupid, but i wanna try to... (3 Replies)