IPC and networking nospam116 4 6
What would be the easiest way to start learning *nix IPC and networkg? Pipes, message qeues, or perhaps unix packets or anything else? Bill ...

What are the codes to set the clock on a wyse 60? boltar20032 2 10
I have a wyse 60 terminal which has a built in clock but you can't set this from the terminal itself. Apparently you have to send certain control code...

how file utility programs work with symblic links lite.on.beta 6 10
In general, for all shells, rm works on a symbolic link itself cp, mv, rmdir, etc. work as if the symbolic link is the thing it is pointing too (dere...

Thread-safety of atoi under POSIX:2004 and POSIX:2008 Noob 2 8
Hello, In a different forum, someone claimed that atoi is not thread-safe, even if the implementation defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE to 200809L. I'm 90% su...

Find/grep problem with single quotes in a file name spamspamspam3 9 11
I've been using this command to search all files for a particular string: find . -type f -name \* -print | xargs grep -ils stringtofind Unfortun...

Exact meaning of the "hello world" eugene19 14 5
Hello! I have a question to native English-speaking people. In the "hello world" greeting, what meaning the "world" has: "all", "people", "friends" o...

exec vs. nohup kenneth.bull 4 8
So I have a script with the following line after the shebang: exec >& file.out ## some echo statements after this Then I call the script with nohup...

Makefile doesn't detect header file change lovecreatesbeauty 22 10
My Makefile doesn't detect the change of header files. This little makefile follows sec 2.6 of GNU make manual, and I remember it worked before when ...

Addint entry in ld.so.conf always correct? lovecreatesbeauty 2 8
I installed log4cplus-1.0.4.1-rc1 from its source package on Debian 6. The sample test code in log4cplus-1.0.4.1-rc1.tar.bz2 built and the executable...

socket option from command line sinbad.sinbad 1 3
i am using netbsd, is there a way to check the socket options of the tcp sockets currently opened in the system through a cmd-line, perhaps like netst...