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I am doing a connect() on a nonblocking socket so that I can do an explicit timeout - rather than let the connect timeout at the kernel's default (which is particularly long).  When I perform ...
As a newbie to C programs, I have encountered an error and don't know what to do next. I am using UnixWare 2.1.2. The command: cc -s -n -L/home/user1/lib/unixware [list of files.o] -lmalloc \...
hi what's the maximum number of characters in a filename in Unix (HP-UX) ? Please reply as soon as possible ,This is urgent .. thanx Suresh
I'm looking for a shell script that will allow me to log a user's actions, to ensure that a user is not using an account in an unauthorized manner.  Any help would be appreciated. marc
I want to substitute each occurence of ROOT with the actual name. For eg. My file name contains. help_dir="ROOT" lic_dir="ROOT". I want to substitute this ROOT with for eg. /home/us...
I have a requirement to convert a file which looks something like this: |-----------------------------------| |CURRENT                            | |                                   | ...
Is there a utility that runs in Unix and will convert a flat Unix disk file with columnar data into a flat Unix disk file with an Excel format?  Or a .dbf (xBase) format?
I get a mainframe report with metadata information related to some tables i am working with.  I can use your egrep program on the report to pull off the lines i am interested in .  (egrep (_tb...
If in an environment there is two crontab entries, if i need to remove both i use crontab -r, on the other if i want to remove the second one, what command should i use to remove the second en...
I would like a perl script which, given standard input: 1) Whenever it finds the string "Page:...$" (where "." is any char and $ is end-of-line), it removes this line and the subsequent 5 l...
I want to write a small csh script that when runs, it would remote log me into a specified unix terminal and continue with more commands without stopping and without interaction. Here's a smal...
i have a unix server with apache and id like to use ssl how can i make my site secure? thanks
Hi I have a build file for my C source code on NT. This file copies a .h file to a target location using the following syntax:  xcopy /I /Q  xyz.h d:\temp\*.* This works fine if my ma...
I am writing a program for BSD, and to test it, I have tried writing a program in C to test a bunch of the parameters and listen for crashing signals.  I know of one error that causes the prog...
In shell scripts (korn), I often see this type of syntax. What does this mean?  Please explain! -thxs #Set up an indicator for Server Manager # (called EOFarch1 here) so that the #comman...
unix search and replace
Newbie to curses. Is it possible to increase the window size to something larger than 23 rows??.  Maybe using a different TERM or something.  Example would be nice.  Thanks.
I have a script that will regularily FTP to a directory and download the latest file. Sometimes the file will be busy being written and the FTP transfer will fail. How to detect this event ...
Our sysadmin recently installed g++3.0 on our IBM workstations at my request. Unfortunately, all programmes which use the standard library give the following error at link time ld: 071...
assuming now i have these codes in my html page, as <OBJECT ID='EVP' CLASSID='CLSID:73020B72-CDD6-4F80-8098-1B2ECD9CA4CA' CODEBASE='http://www.myserver.net/server/vp/classic/embedded/plugins/...
I have 2 variables that were made in my script. $var1 $var2 I want to add, divide and multiply using awk and my variables I think it should look something like this but i cant get it......
Hi, I have a 32 bit application running on a 64bit server. This application has the third quadrant enabled ... which means that it can access up to 2.75Gb of memory (normally a 32bit progr...
I'm opening a pipe (in my program) to another program and must redirect stdout to a file but would like to be able to read stderr messages.  Is there a way to read stderr via popen? fp = po...
Hi, I want to get the stack trace updated to a log when a running process crashes due to an exception. It is a C process runnung on unix. After some search, I came thro U_STACK_TRACE(), whic...
Sys V ----- I have a C program named 'X' uses System V message Queue and communicates to a program called 'Y'. Posix ----- I have another C program named 'A' which unlinks a Posix Messa...