Or do you mean the full path to the bash binary?

$ which bash
/bin/bash

That's cool,

I think the main problem that you're having is that the ports required to connect to samba are filtered. Whether it's at your ISP, your router, or the machine itself. Perhaps you've...

Hi Darkflib!

I can't speak for the OP, but one of the advantages of running Linux from a usb stick (pen drive, thumb drive, I never know what to call those things...) is that you can configure it...

Hi!

It's most likely filtered by your ISP. They generally do this to help prevent old, unpatched Windows machines that are directly connected to the internet from being cracked. In general, this...

Hi!

That sounds interesting, but I think we're a little unclear about the details. You mention...

"create a menu which will add users doing this in Bash"

...and...

"then adding a list of...

Hmm... Is that the whole script? I'm not seeing the "users" function called anywhere, or even a terminating "}" for the function :)

-G

That's really odd... It works OK on my system:


$ sed -f DBACheck.sql.sed DBACheck.sql
select granted_role from sys.dba_role_privs where grantee='SYSTEM';



What version of sed are you...

Hi!

I hope you've already found an answer to this, but if not, this thread might help:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/dns-rndc-service-errror-229950/

Debian is the ORIGINAL "picnic in the park"!!! Apt is the greatest invention ever!

Okay, but seriously. If you want to stick with Debian, which I support completely, look into ndiswrapper. ...

Check out tinycore! (http://www.tinycorelinux.com/)
Or P.U.D. Linux! It's based on Ubuntu.
SLAX also runs great from a pen drive!

For the record, I've run the standard xubuntu on a 2GB stick...

Here's a link that might get you started:

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/SQL*Plus_FAQ#What_is_SQL.2APlus_and_where_does_it_come_from.3F

Experiment with care!

Sure! I don't have any examples in front of me, but the Oracle command line client is sqlplus. There are others, but I think sqlplus is the one that ships with Oracle. You should be able to script...

Check out "read"! It will take the user input and do whatever you want with it.


read -p "what is your name? " name
echo "Nice to meet you $name"


Hope that helps!
-G

Looks like you need to enclose your $line|sed in both cases! Try this:


for line in $(ls *.new); do
file1="${line}"
file2="$(echo ${line} | sed 's/\(.*\)..../\1/')"
diff ${file1}...

Heh, for some reason the topic reply notification from this thread reminded me of this, so I had to share:

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

-G

Do you use the temporary file for anything in the meantime? I'm biased against temporary files when they can be avoided, personally... Why not stuff it all into a variable and then stuff it into a...

vim all the way! If it's configured with syntax hilighting and search hilighting, and you can get used to the commands, it's the best ever for command line html/php/any scripting language you can...

Okay, I needed something to get my mind off work for a few minutes, so here's a quick script I wrote using both of the suggestions above from chris5126 and omrsafetyo. I didn't translate the date, I...

Wow, that's a lot of pipes! I would do it something like this:


awk '{TotCPU += $1}{TotMem += $2}END{print "Total CPU= " TotCPU "\nTotal Mem= "TotMem}' test.list


Kinda ugly all in one...

Hi!

The problem is that you're not providing a database name! Try this:


mysql -uusername -ppassword database_name ...



Hope that helps!

I keep a copy of this document posted at every workstation in my office ;)

http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/vi%20Quick%20Reference.pdf

Enjoy!
-G

It's just a text file right? What flavor of Unix are you using? You'll probably want to use "vi" or "emacs". If you're not familiar with either of those, you'll probably want to google for some...

jbennet, you are a cool dude. I wish you'd come help me convince the IT people I work with... If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

My IT department has a habit of "sniper upgrading" production...

One thing to remember about 'sudo su' is that it's not a 'login shell' by default. If you use 'sudo su -l' ('sudo su -' for short) then you'll inherit all of the root user's environment variables,...

Here's a silly question... Have you tried forcing your NIC on the Windows box to run in 'full duplex' mode?

The speed problem is only when going up from the Windows box to the Linux box right? ...

Try using the built in exec command! Also, not sure if that's exactly what you're typing, but you'll need to give "find" a few more arguments...

find . -iname *.dat -prune -exec ls -ltr {}\;

...

Hi Shwick!

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do with the usermod command there. If it's giving you the usage, then you've likely got a syntax error somewhere. What's the end result...

Heya Robert72! Did you find what you were looking for, or did you need more specific examples?

-G

I think you're looking for read -p

I have some examples, but running to a meeting... If you still need help, I'll post it later!

-G

My advice? Try them ALL! At least the mainstream ones. Most everything else is based on one of the mainstream distros. It's all a matter of preference. I started out with RedHat and rpm...

Doesn't tripwire write a to a report file by default? Maybe you could get the results you're looking for by running tripwire and then parsing the report?

Otherwise, I think you're just missing...

Does that happen after you log in, or during boot up?

It's all about what you're comfortable with!

Linux can be point-and-click, or you can do it all at command line. I'll also say that if you're running Linux as a web server (with...

BillBrown hit it on the head. It's really all about preference. I started out working with RedHat servers, and then experimented with every different distribution I could get my hands on until I...

This may be late, but I wanted to get the "column" command into the fight!


$ column -t -s " " test.txt
aba bba baba
abba baba baaa
addd ffff fffff


Hope this helps!

Hi Ajay!

I'm not that familiar with Java, so are the System.out messages what gets printed on the command line?

If' so, you'll want to run your java app like this:

./java-app >> log.txt

...

Okay, I think I'm confused now. It sounds like you just need to run that file as a shell script.

# sh ./file


Unless there's a reason to run it line-by-line... If you can't run it in place...

Hi Jaoqua!

How have you tried so far? Depending on how the file is formatted (are there spaces in some of the commands you want to run?) it should be as simple as:


for i in $(cat...

Hi Manik, you might want to start a new thread, since this was was solved back in March :)

If this isn't what you're looking for, please start a new thread with more details. From what you've...

This is a really interesting project. I'd like to take a deeper look into it when I have some time :)

Although I love bash a lot, Perl has a lot of built in functions to handle the conversions...