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1. Red Hat
RHEL 6.3
Could someone tell me how to use the find and chown command to replace all files in a directory owned by user1 (for this example) and replace with user1:group1? Most importantly I dont want to change any files owned by root. I recently used the following command but it changed the root... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gps1976
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello every body,
I need to make a constant variable to the root such as #PS1="I am Amer" and so on.
I know if i am a user,I can make it fixed from #vi .profile
HOW to make it fixed for the root?
Thanks in advance
BR
Ahmed Amer
Cairo,Egypt (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ahmedamer12
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3. AIX
dears,
good day.
i need to be able to take a mksysb for a machine running aix 6.1.5 without the root credentials and also without using sudo
any advice ? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: islam.said
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4. UNIX and Linux Applications
HI all, I got a CPIO archive that contains a unix filesystem that I try to extract, but it extract to the root dir / unstead of current dir, and happily it detects my file are newer otherwise it would have overwrited my system's file!
I tried all these commands
cpio -i --make-directories <... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nekkro-kvlt
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5. Solaris
Hi
my directory not accepting any commands. its simply telling permission denied. i tried ( cp, mv, rm ) as roor
i want to set default permissons to this DIR
please find the Logs below.
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Jun 1 09:04 AP1_ROP ( original dir)
root> chmod 777... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: vijayq8
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have this piece of shell script:
#!/bin/ksh
x=data1
x=data1
x=data1
for i in 1 2 3
do
cp x $IN_DIR
done
PerformNextTask
$IN_DIR is already designed to automatically pick up x and send x to other directory $OK_DIR. $IN_DIR will be empty once all x goes to $OK_DIR.... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: luna_soleil
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all, i hope i got this in the right place, what i am trying to do is make a program only run by root, ie
for instance user fred is logged in and uses firefox, what id like to do is change that so that when fred wants to use firefox he will be asked to enter root password before he is allowed to... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: dave123
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I want to know what i can set up so that root user can read everything. On my Solaris systems root can read the following directory.
drwxrwx--- 408 icsrc icarc0 36864 Aug 21 07:24 dev
drwxrwsr-x 7 icsrc icarc0 4096 Aug 4 1998 test
But on my linux systems it gets:
# cd dev
bash: cd:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: frankkahle
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am little bit confused when the words "root directory" and "home directory" and "parent directory" are used. Can anybody explains the difference.
I am trying to list the names and protections levels and size of visible files in the root directory
would it be correct if I just typed:
ls... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hinman
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I have unix solaris , size of root directory decrease continuously like :
'/ : Disk space: 13.92 MB of 100.45 MB available (13.86%).'
and decrease more and more ,
How can i detect the reason ? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Eyd
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