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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello folks,
I am facing a weird issue on one of the red hat linux 5 box. There is an oracle id which i want to change the primary group. Currently the primary group id is 16600, I did changed it to 16601 using below command:
usermod -g 16601 oracle
But it did not changed. I have tried... (3 Replies)
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2. SuSE
Hello,
A admin at work created accounts for me on about 20 SLES 11 servers. He gave me the wrong home directory. He also didn't create a home directory for me on the servers. I have root/sudo on the systems. I usually use the usermod command or just modify the /etc/passwd file to fix issues like... (11 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Present
/home/dsadm# id dsadm
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
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needs to be
/home/dsadm> id dsadm
uid=23186(dsadm) gid=16284(gdstage)
Please provide the command/steps for the above uid, gid value change
Thanks in advance for all your support .
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I was analyzing the Disk read using hdparm utility.
This is what i got as a result.
# hdparm -t /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 108 MB in 3.04 seconds = 35.51 MB/sec
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/dev/sda:
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5. AIX
Checking configuration access files for an AIX server, left me wondering about this :confused::
If a user is added to system group, it gets gid=0 with some security risks because it gets some root kind of file access level.
Is this insecure condition kept if the user has admin variable... (0 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi
When I search a file with find, the subsequent search process takes relatively less time.
Is it cached somewhere in RAM altough the process died? (3 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
My .vimrc file has filetype mappings for different filetypes such as :
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi there,
One can easily retrieve the uid from a username :
id -u $username
But how can we easily retrieve the gid from a group name?
I mean is there a command without using sed?
sed -nr "s/^$groupname:x:(+):.*/\1/p" /etc/group
Thanks for your help
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Can any one suggest me the way how can get mamory which has been cached during a process execution without rebooting the machine? (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi,
how do i remove the cache from squid automatically every day?/
ie., from /var/spool/squid/ all the directories which has been cached here and restart ONLY squid without rebooting the system, including the swap.state files
thanx in advance
cheers (1 Reply)
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