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You guys are quick and very helpful! Thank you very much.
My original question was answered and I'll use something like below to start with. I'll incorporate the other suggestions to make my...

Is there a way I can specify the name of a list as an argument to a shell script and then use the values of that list name in the script?
I need to do this WITHOUT using case statements.
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I have Cygwin/X installed on Windows 7. In an xterm, I turned on logging via Main Options > Log to File.

When I open my log file with Vim I get a warning that it might be binary. Looking...

My "problem" is that it's set correctly and I want to break it, but can't figure out where it's getting set in the first place.

I can see several places where $DISPLAY is referenced but at the...

The backslash did it. Thanks!

ex\@mple

I too saw warnings about using the special character "@" but I thought the warning only applied if "@" was used for kill. My stty -a output isn't, so I moved on in my troubleshooting process.
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I am getting closer. The problem is that the root password contains the "@" character. When I use a password without "@" I can get in. I think it has something to do with eol being set to ^@.
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No joy. In fact, removing tcp6 disallowed all telnet connections. Even the regular user.



Yeah, makes me think of some security setting someplace (stating the obvious) but I haven't been...

I have /var/adm/inetd.sec and it has

dtspc allow 127.0.0.1 loopback servername


Looking at the man page for inetd.sec I see

When inetd accepts a connection from a remote system,...

I need to be able to connect via telnet from a remote workstation and login as root. Period. Moving /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny unfortunately didn't help.

Actually, I don't know for sure. I don't think so but even if it did, if you were thinking about using that as a method of access I wouldn't be able to do it. The machine sits in the lab but I...

I have a new box that was set up for me and I want to allow telnet to the box as root. I know that it's not secure but due to the nature of what I test I need an easy and reliable way back in if...

Is there a way to resize x clients after they're started either on the command line or programmatically?
I'm using Cygwin and typically start my root window, wm, and four xterms. By the end of the...

Thanks for the replies. It's educational to see the different approaches used. What's interesting to me is that when I use this approach I get the newline as index 0. How would I get rid of that? ...

Just wondering if there's a better way to get these complete sentences into an array and keep the quotes intact? All the quotes make it look ugly to me but it works. I want to be able to refer to...

You make that look so easy.

I found this logging subroutine on the net that I want to use but despite trying many things, I cannot figure out how to get the date in front of the logged text. Ideally what I'm looking for is a...