1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

ENV: linux Version: Mandrake 8.1, PCMCIA card: longshine lcs-8534TB. (supported according the PCMCIA docs) laptop is P-II lifetec /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 ( found via probe -m ) PCIC_OPTS="cs_irq=11 pci_irq_list=11,11 do_scan=0" ( you see i want to force irq 11 )... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

This is for 3 os's, AIX, Solaris, and AIX, didnt want to post three seperate times on the same subject, anyways, I want to force the user MQM to su, i.e. not be able to rlogin/telnet to the box as user MQM, only login as there ID(chris for example) and su to MQM, does anyone know how to do this,... (4 Replies)

3. Solaris

Hi, how do I go about forcing users to change their password every, say, 30 days? Aaron (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is there A way I can Force a makefile to ignore errors? i believe it is using gcc. i have a set of commands in the makefile that i want to run and each time the makefile gets to the point of this commands, it aborts because of the commands. how can i get the makefile to keep running... (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Here is an observation that has started to riddle me and perhaps someone can enlighten me. When a web page (or desktop page for that matter) uses the standard font, it is not anti-aliased, unless the user opts in to do so via the desktop settings. It appears however that fonts are not... (0 Replies)

6. Red Hat

Hello, Is there a way to force a kernel panic in RHEL 5.4 in such a way that the machine reboots after the panic. Thanks, Kanna (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear all, I am using Mac OSX, have been successfully written an awk script during the last days. I use the script to convert parts of a .dot-file into graphml code. First question: Backslash My .dot-code includes repeatedly the sign "\n". I would like to search for this sign and substitute... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a master host I want to use to issue some start/stop of LDAP services. I changed the client hosts /etc/sudoers to have Defaults:infra !requiretty The master host kicks off the jobs using the infra account doing a ssh session to the infra account on the clients. #!/bin/ksh ps -fu... (5 Replies)

9. Hardware

Linux seems to have weird USB power saving features, my Kindle 3 only gets some charge before Linux powers down the USB port. When the device is mounted, it doesn't get enough power, with this same hardware under Windows I don't get the message on the Kindle "currently your kindle is not... (2 Replies)

10. Programming

Hello, I am writing a program which runs with root privileges, and it creates a child with lowered privileges and has to redirect it's stdout and stderr to a file and then run bash. The problem is, whenever I read this file, I want to see all of the current output, even when the program is still... (10 Replies)