Ismo Puustinen wrote:
I have bad habit: when I type 'su', I start writing the password
almost right away. If the computer is slow, the password prompt takes
some time to appear. In this case, the password letters I have already
written before the password prompt appeared are displayed on the
Archiee wrote:
I thing that something is wrong with stty command this are listings
from Cygwin:
If you are talking Cygwin then you are running on MS-Windows? I did
not even know MS-Windows had a tty driver. How is Cygwin emulating
that? (shock, horror, amazement)
You really need to talk to
Raghunathan A wrote:
In Linux, when I give the command 'ls' to list the files in a directory,
suddenly the screen gets set to black background with white (or
sometimes color) letters. And I am unable to reset the screen back to
its original color settings. 'stty -sane' also does not work. Why
Yuri wrote:
In installation, when I type
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash I have
# Illegal instruction plz HELP
You are apparently trying to chroot into a gentoo directory which
presumably contains some type of operating system. That operating
system would need to be compatible with your
Dairenn Lombard wrote:
Mind adding the fact that in order to use /bin/su must be in the 'wheel'
group in the man pages? Adding that into the info screen would also help.
We appreciate your report. Bringing these things to the maintainers
attention helps improve the software. But in this case
Dairenn Lombard wrote:
Thanks for going into such informative depth in your response. Here is the
output of our sh:
# su --version
su (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
Written by David MacKenzie.
[...]
I checked just in case for some strange reason, we got the man page for the
GNU su but were
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
used 'usermod -G users,demo3 garg' to
add user 'garg' to the users and demo3 groups.
Just curious, but what directed your 'usermod' question to shellutils?
'usermod' are other folks. But I can answer your question anyway.
Then, when I do 'groups' as user 'garg', I
Let me redirect you to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I am sure that
someone there would have comment about your issue with sed.
Please be sure to include a subject line as noted in the 'sed'
information. Your message to bug-shellutils did not have a subject.
Thanks,
Bob
sed --version
E-mail bug
Kess Peter wrote:
i have a customer where i migrate a large database from unixware to
linux( suse open enterprise 8) but it also happens in Suse 7.3 Professional.
Our customer uses test -f whithin thousands of scripts.
But if i use test -f with no additional parameter it comes back with
Nicola Lodato wrote:
I've a user /test /that has a /bin/bash shell. In his .profile file
there is these lines:
ODSRELEASE=/some/dir/
export ODSRELEASE
When, as user root, I try this command:
su - test -c echo $ODSRELEASE
You are getting confused about shell command line quoting. The
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've found that if bash scripts (or python and probably many more) use the
magic shebang trick as in the following example:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
I believe the above is just an example? Surely for sh it would be
#!/bin/sh, right? You only need the #!/usr/bin/env when
Boris Maizel wrote:
Found a bug in the date:
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
Thanks for the report. It is most appreciated. However sh-utils-2.0
is very old. In fact many bugs were fixed in 2.0.11 (or somewhere
around there).
This entry is in the FAQ. Look for date command is not working right.
Karel Kulhavý wrote:
I have used date according to supplied info documentations and figured
out it doesn't work.
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:11:03 +0100
Oh yes, you do need to get 'date' working for you. :-)
If you are on a network of computers and not just on an isolated
machine then I
David Kaelbling wrote:
On IRIX the /usr/bsd/hostname command supports a -s option that makes
it return the simple (no domain) version of the host name:
orchietta 15 hostname
orchietta.hudson.sgi.com
orchietta 16 hostname -s
orchietta
FreeBSD and I presume other
Myers, George (N-Superior Services) wrote:
Logging into a RedHat Linux 8.0 host using Exceed v7.0.
Setting stty erase Backspace.
Result of the above stty command results in a tilde (~) echoed to my console when I
hit the Backspace key.
Any ideas on how to make stty erase Backspace work?
Tony Granath wrote:
I have a problem with su, so I asked in a linux channel on irc about
what to do, and they told me to send a bugreport to you and send my
binary file.. I get Segmentation fault when I type su
Thanks for the report. But there is not enough information there to
debug the
Laurent Mazet wrote:
When I forget to redirect input stream, I can not close my ssh
connection.
If I kill ssh, process launch by nohup are killed !
So, I hack the nohup of my Mandrake 9.0 (sh-utils-2.0.15-2mdk)...
There is a lot of discussion on the ssh lists about ssh and processes
with open
Mohd Ghalib Akhtar wrote:
i am using sleep command i am facing problem,
i would like command execuate tomarrow 12pm how i
write
here
You don't seem to be either reporting a bug or talking about
shellutils / coreutils which is the purpose of this list. Your
question would be more appropriate
VAN HOOSTE, Wim wrote:
Hi,
Hello.
We, ING Insurances - a Belgian insurance company, opened a call at
IBM for a problem with the id-command. The problem seemed to go
beyond the AIX OS and also affects GNU sh-utils 2.0.
Thanks for keeping us informed as well. However, I do not believe
what
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It has recently come to my attention while compiling python that my
computer's clock was reset somehow.The date read 1-1-1903.
Thank you for your report. But in order for someone to diagnose and
debug the problem more information will be needed. Enough information
to
Jonathan Greer wrote:
As I mentioned in the topic - I have a problem with uname. It's
actually what the values are, like the clock. When the clock really is
18:12, uname shows a constant time of 20:12 17 Dec 2002... That's not
really right, what have I possibly f*cked up? How can I fix it?
Daniel Kjeserud wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kjes]$ uname --help
Thanks for the report. But 'uname --version' would have been best.
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED].
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kjes]$ uname -v
#1 Fri Jan 31 06:51:30 EST 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kjes]$ uname -r
2.4.18-24.8.0
Harish C Lodwal wrote:
the cygwin uname -v shouing date and time
it should be os version
bash-2.05a$ uname -v
2002-02-25 11:14
Actually the os version of cygwin probably is the date. There is
little else better to use. Remember that it is the version of the
operating system
Thomas Koeller wrote:
~/build/gnu/sh-utils-2.0 $ date -u; date
Son Feb 2 17:13:49 UTC 2003
Son Feb 2 18:13:27 CET 2003
That is indeed very bizarre. I cannot imagine a situation that would
create such behavior. Can we get a second opinion? Try this:
date -u; date;perl -e 'print
Pavan Kumar Purohit wrote:
thanks for the mail. I experiance the same problem in /bin/bash
Oh well. A good crosscheck regardless.
The Shell code is very simple. I excute the program binary and sleep for
180 seconds in an infinate loop(while(1)).
Something like this?
while true; do
Pavan Kumar Purohit wrote:
I have used 'sleep' in a C shell script. This script in turn executes a
program. sleep is used to give delay between execution of the program in
the script.
Every 2-3 hours the sleep becomes defunct (see below)
root21624 0.0 0.0 00 pts/4Z01:02
B Uday Kumar Reddy wrote:
I found the following issue regarding 'su' part of GNU
sh-utils-2.0:
Thanks for the report. But this is not a problem with su. It is
generic system behavior.
On a system which is a client to the NIS Server
(running ypbind), the root user can do an su to any
other
Tarje Bargheer wrote:
Sorry if this is related to my own setup, and not uname in general...
Thanks for the report. But I believe it is your personal setup.
But I use Gentoo linux (and uses scripts that for instance uses 'uname
-r'). When I type
uname -r
I get the following output:
mydownload my [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-12 00:12:18 +0800]:
I am a linux user.I want to ask a question about chroot.
When I use chroot command(for example:chroot /root),a error display:
chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory
Run COMMAND with root directory set to
Bart Wille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-08 10:06:33 -0100]:
I believe I have found a possible bug in su:
when mistyping the password su wait for a few seconds before
giving you another try. This delay can be easily be bypassed with
ctrl-C and su. Shouldn't the ctrl-C combination be
Puntudis T., M.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-02 19:05:59 +0700]:
make -- complaint the below.
Thanks for the report.
BTW, I just want ''echo -e''. This u*x does NOT have it :-(
Note that 'echo' is a shell builtin. You probably want to compile a
shell such as bash and not the standalone
Kenneth Stailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-02 11:10:11 -0800]:
FreeBSD's date can turn seconds since the epoch back into a human-readable
format:
$ date -j -f %s 1041286200
Mon Dec 30 17:10:00 EST 2002
Try this with GNU date. I will set the TZ to match yours.
export TZ=EST
date -d
- Forwarded message from Klaus Umbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
From: Klaus Umbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:11:26 +0100
To: Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bug in date?
I found the bug on 2.0 but with my version (4.5.2) at home, I've got the
same problem
Frank 'xraz' Fricke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-14 14:57:48 +0100]:
I found the bug on 2.0 but with my version (4.5.2) at home, I've got the
same problem.
Yes. Looks like a bug to be fixed.
Thanks for the report!
Bob
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Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-15 12:22:49 -0700]:
Frank 'xraz' Fricke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-14 14:57:48 +0100]:
Ack! That is what I get for trying to fix up problems when people
send mail to the wrong address. I cut and pasted that from the wrong
message. It should have read
Fredrik Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-11 14:15:17 +]:
When running
#uname -v
in mandrake 8.1 printed should be the operating system version.
What i get is though.
#uname -v
#1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001
But that is the operating system version.
The problem is what
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-30 19:24:44 +]:
= So I do:
$ /bin/echo -ne \377 | hexd2
: 33 37 37
$
= I should get : FF according to the above. Why don't I?
= Other escape sequences give similar results. (eg \100)
I think you are getting confused by the shell.
Jake [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-25 17:22:04 -0500]:
Just wondering if you know what causes this. If I exit the shell without
typing exit, i stay logged. when i do a who i can see a connection that
dates of days ago. but its not opened and its proccess is long dead. how do
i clean it so that
Perrault, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-22 11:24:56 -0500]:
When using stty, there is no option to select the device of interest
before changing settings. I.e. if I want to change ispeed or ispeed for
/dev/ttyS0 instead of the default, there isn't a way to do that.
Newer
System Overide [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-11-19 12:04:41 -0500]:
i tried to change my hostname on cygwin on my XP machine and i got
this error...
hostname: cannot set hostname; this system lacks the functionality
what does this mean, is there any way i can change the
hostname... or even
Tzvika Faibish [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-20 09:32:40 +0200]:
Dir Sirs,
We're working with HP-UX and SUN Solaris at our company and I try to run
with Linux environment as well. While I login from HP or SUN environment to
my Linux station my display gets fonts and display problem (for example
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[2002-11-20 09:38:39 -0500]:
Sir:
I have been using your unix utilities on my Windows NT MS-DOS prompt for
quite sometime now and I find it useful.
If you are using MS-Windows then does that mean you are using Cygwin?
http://www.cygwin.com
If so then
Please follow up to the list and not to me personally unless it is
private. I forwarded your message to the list and am following up to
it. It is a team effort.
Barnes, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-07 11:48:37 -0600]:
I just used the MAN page and found it most confusing.
I notice that
Your date set feature is horribly broken and/or misleadingly documented.
It could certainly be improved. Please make suggestions for
improvements! But I don't think it is really that bad. Let's take a
look at it.
Here is from the man page.
date [-u]
date [-u] +format
date
Please keep responses on the mailing list and not to me privately
unless it is personal.
Bob
Meister, Stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-04 07:53:59 +0100]:
Hello Bob,
here is the Version of date:
smeister@s390linux08:~ date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
Written by David MacKenzie.
Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-01 18:54:11 -0700]:
Try forcing the version from sh-utils / coreutils of which this list
is concerned about. This list is for the standalone versions. The
one built into your shell is the shell version. We can't help with
the built in shell version
Andrew Skiba [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-29 20:24:37 +0300]:
I know this can hardly be called bug, but anyway...
man echo promises me --version and --help command line options. Note
that man echo does not mention POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable.
So when i tried
$ echo
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-08 16:59:51 +0200]:
GNU sh-util v2.0 on Mac OS X fail to output the correct architecture.
Is there a known fix for this?
There is an architecture option for uname?
% /usr/bin/uname -a
Darwin durmstrang 6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 6.0: Sat
Ronnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-27 23:26:07 +0200]:
I am unable to get echo to recognise any of its options such as \n \c \r
etc. I am using Redhat Linux 6.2.
Any suggestions or reasons?
Thanx
Ronnie Sarkin
There is controversy over whether echo should behave like commercial
unix flavors
Gyana [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-09 12:21:22 +0530]:
I have one Hello World object file. I want to get the executable
without using gcc directly. Instead I want to link the object file to the
library by using ld in command line.
I see that you posted this to other gnu groups too so I
I would kindly bring to your notice an error in the functionality of the shell
program 'expr'. The program malfunctions whenever we try to evaluate an expression
containing the symbols '' or ''. After hours of debugging, I noticed that the Unix
shell by default uses these symbols for
Dee-Ann LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-02 18:24:56 -0700]:
I forwarded this to some folks who are helping me with scripting and
thought I'd forward it to the proper bug reporting agency too.
You found it! Thanks for the report.
Obviously not all of these are your problem, but the RH 8
Colin Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-05 01:23:57 +0930]:
Is this correct behaviour
[rosec@thunderbird rosec]$ uname -v
#1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002
I am using 2.05b.0(1)-release under mandrake 9
Yes. The 'uname -v' command prints out the kernel version. Linux has
traditionally
Jan Stary [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-26 08:57:42 +0200]:
jsta6559@artax$ whoami
jsta6559
jsta6559@artax$ who am i
jsta6559 pts/15 Sep 26 08:12 (r2e52.mistral.cz)
qitekpts/15 Sep 25 11:06 (gw.netbone.cz)
So who am i, really :-)
Note the pts/15 for both.
Could you tell
John P. Looney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-20 10:53:36 +0100]:
Something that bit me today is that echo does not report back all error
conditions.
On a full filesystem, echo silently fails (leading the user to think
there is wierd disk problems, until the disk free is checked).
This
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-20 13:44:43
-0400]:
I use the todate program to manipulate the date fields that I have in one
of my files. I'm using the %s format string which formats the date to
seconds elapsed since Jan 1 1970. Is there any way in which I can convert
the
Richard Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-12 01:29:56 +0100]:
Sorry if this is already reported.
In man date, the %S option is listed as from 0-60, not 0-59
I have tested, and it seems to be actually 0-59 ie 'round down to the
nearest second', rather than (erroneously) 'round to the
Michel Bouchet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-12 17:36:08 +0900]:
I noticed the folowing under Linux Mandrake 8.2, with the expr command :
[eagle@WA_Mozart eagle]$ expr 2 * 3
expr: syntax error
[eagle@WA_Mozart eagle]$
Shouldn't the answer be 6 and not an error message ?
No. You are
Herm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-03 11:05:41 +0200]:
when generating a timestamp with
date --date='2002-03-08 08:50:02' +%Y%m%d%k%M%S
i get a blank in the response:
20020308 85002
after time has raised it looks like this:
date --date='2002-03-08 18:50:02' +%Y%m%d%k%M%S
20020308185002
date +%s --date=20380120
gets Invalid date?
Why can't I get the date in seconds for 20th of Janurary 2038?
Because your operating system is using a 32-bit value for time_t and
that date overflows the value that it can hold in seconds since Jan 1,
1970. This is one of the reasons why Y2K
Thanks for your report.
i really wish to have option in tee utility for switching input/output
to be unbuffered. Now, teeing process ouput breaks interactive
watching. You do not see anything until tee's input buffer is filled.
Are you sure the problem is with 'tee' and not the commands
Thanks for your report. There does indeed seem to be a problem on
HP-UX. I am filing a defect against it.
ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # test -d man???
ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # echo $?
0
ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # echo $USERDIR/work/man???
/home/user/work/man000 /home/user/work/man001
It seems that su accepts valid password (unix) more than 8 characters. But
it just reads first 8 chars and authenticates if the user name and first 8
chars of the password is a valid user account. My colleguge has detected it.
I did not look at the code but I do not believe that su is
cp001:~ # du -sh bonnietmp.old/ ; ls bonnietmp.old/*log* ; rm -rf bonniet=
mp.old/*log*
43M bonnietmp.old
bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
cp001:~ #
You are seeing a common shell expansion limit. You are hitting
ARG_MAX. Here is an FAQ entry
I'm not 100% sure this is a bug, but I can't find an explanation for this
behavior in either the env texinfo file or on the sh-utils FAQ page. If
you run this command from the shell prompt:
echo 'print foo\n' | /usr/bin/env perl -w
env works as expected. However, the
ls --help
ls --version
don't work as documented in the man page
ls --version
is suppose to display version information
all it displays is --version
I made a slipup in typing its echo that doesn't work right
Please check out the following FAQ on this subject.
Randy
I have just found a bug in the date command.
Thanks for the report. Could you also report to the email list the
version of the date command you are using. There have been many bugs
fixed in recent versions. You might still be using an older version.
If you are using date version 2.0
Jim is away from his keyboard for a few days. In lieu of his
authoritative answers let me provide some information.
** sh-utils-2.0
** chkrootkit-0.35 (chkrootkit.org)
'chkrootkit' says that 'date' (sh-utils) contains a rootkit. Is this a
false positive or not?
Since the GNU utilities
According to the man page for echo, --help and --version will both
generate information from the echo command itself. However, in
accoring-to-the-man-page version 2.0 (included with RH 7.0), issuing the
command echo --help results in the output of --help, and the command
echo --version
Thank your for your report. It is most appreciated. However what you
have seen is not a bug but normal program behavior.
in date's manual page i read:
-s, --set=STRING
but i could change the date only with:
date -s22:00:00 +%T
why the equal sign if?
It is not clear to me exactly
does GNU GCC (Cygwin for Windows) support 64-bit functions?
how do i turn them on?
how can i display a 64-bit integer using printf?
Check with the Cygwin folks.
http://cygwin.com/
Bob
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I do have some problems with the molpro quantum chemistry program
exiting due to Signal 1 (Hangup) even though it is run through
nohup. The hangup-exit is reproducible and happens after the program
is running for hours or days.
Why is the program being sent a SIGHUP? That normally happens
JR
is it possible with date to set the time it shall display with the number
of seconds, one gets from the output of:
' %s seconds since 00:00:00, Jan 1, 1970 (a GNU extension)'
Yes it is possible. This is documented in the manual. Here is the
pertinent section.
To convert such
Probles description:
I tried to send data from Linux /dev/ttyS0 to a SCO unix serial
port. The two serial ports are connected with a NULL MODEM.
If XON/XOFF flow control is used, I set the linux /dev/ttyS0 with:
( stty 9600 ixon ixoff -crtscts cs8 ;
while : ;
I played with seq and found it quit usefull.
Can I file two enhancement requests ?
Suggestions are always welcome.
(1) My version speaks German and therefore (I guess) there is no decimal
point in reals but a decimal komma .
This is good and correct if the numbers are used in a
the current dirname tool does not support backslash support. This
patch fixes this.
- slash = strrchr (path, '/');
+ slash = strrchr (path, delim);
+ if (slash == NULL)
+delim = '\\';
+slash = strrchr (path, delim);
I do not believe this is valid. It appears to say, if no / found
Note that the -p option is not standard. For portable applications
you should avoid using that option. In fact the uname functionality
Well as both -s and -p are present it would seem sensible that they
worked. If there is an issue with it not working why is it present in a
broken
I'm using su (GNU sh-utils) version 2.0 on a RedHat Linux 6.2 box. I also
have OpenSSH 2.9.9p2 running on this box. I wanted to do remote monitoring
of this system's messages, so I logged in using a normal user account then
did a su --command='tail -100f /var/log/messages' root.
However,
I use debian woody with kernel 2.4.17, gnome and gnome-terminal.
who doesn't report anything, as nobody was logged in.
I use --login option of gnome-terminal but nothing.
Even if I use su - it doesn't report nothing.
the files utmp and wtmp have the following permissions
-rw-rw-r--
I have two systems (Dell GX 240, RH 7.2 2.4.7-10 kernel). THe hostid
output is same for both!
Interesting.
system 1.
Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:7C:32:EC
hostid: 7f0100
system 2:
Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:7C:32:F3
hostid: 7f0100
How this can happen?
The hostid program calls the
When the login screen appears after booting if I press the right
arrow on my keyboard, which places [C in the username space then
press enter to type in the password, the case of the letters changes
to uppercase.
This is probably the way it is supposed to work. The login program
tries to
I get the following outputs from seq, and they are obviosly contraversary:
$ seq -s ' ' .9 .03 1.5
0.9 0.93 0.96 0.99 1.02 1.05 1.08 1.11 1.14 1.17 1.2 1.23 1.26 1.29 1.32
1.35 1.38 1.41 1.44 1.47 1.5
$ seq -s ' ' .9 .03 1.2
0.9 0.93 0.96 0.99 1.02 1.05 1.08 1.11 1.14 1.17
Why isn't
Jonathan
This is a fresh install of Linux Mandrake 8.1 on an i586 and the output in an
XTerm window.
:Fri 05:16:58:~ id
uid=501(jon) gid=505(jon)
groups=505(jon),22(cdrom),43(usb),80(cdwriter),81(audio),501(xgrp)
:Fri 05:16:58:~ su root
Password:
:Fri 05:16:58:~ id
uid=501(jon)
1st of all, I am very much delighted to use the GNU
tools that I downloaded from www.cygnus.com.
Here is a bug report on BASH command 'which' and
probably related 'chmod' and/or 'ls -ls' as well.
Thank you for your excellently prepared bug report. It really stands
out as compared to
I believe I have found a bug in the version of GNU 'date'
distributed with RedHat 7.1.
=== Version return: ===
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
There have been many fixes to date in the latest test beta releases.
If it would be possible for you to test these I am hoping you will
find your problem
I am afraid I stumbled on a bug in date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0, running on RedHat
7.1 (RPM sh-utils-2.0-13) or Solaris 2.6 (installed from sources in
There have been many fixes to date in the latest test beta releases.
If it would be possible for you to test these I am hoping you will
find your
$ rpm -qf `which echo`
sh-utils-2.0-13
The 'which' command will always report external commands. But the
shell has internal replacements for many external commands. The
'echo' command is one of those that is typically an internal shell
command unless you force it otherwise.
type echo
5.7 root-sjrd1# su - smuser
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.7 Generic October 1998
$ which ps
/usr/ucb/ps
5.7 root-sjrd1# /usr/bin/su - smuser
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.7 Generic October 1998
$ which ps
/usr/bin/ps
One part that is important to understanding what is happening here is
Under Linux 7.0 with bash 2.04.11:
1. You should report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrong list. But an honest mistake. And of
course we have the best support over here. :-)
2. What you are seeing is considered a feature by many. As an old
timer I don't
I am writing a script and appear completely unable to employ expr.
It works for plus but for no other operators. I need *.
Are you forgetting that * is a shell metacharacter and would need to
be protected from shell expansion? Check this with echo.
echo expr 2 * 3
You want to quote the
So, putting in the -u flag didn't help. I tried testing several systems
[...]
bash-2.03# src/date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
In all cases I saw the version was 2.0. If possible you should try
the newer 2.0.11. I believe there have been some fixes since 2.0
which might improve your
Both username hehe and #hehe don't exist
[freax@freax freax]$ su hehe
su: user hehe does not exist
[freax@freax freax]$ su #hehe
Password:
su: incorrect password
[freax@freax freax]$
Thanks for the report. But that is not a bug. The behavior you
report has nothing to do with su and
| However, I think you have uncovered a different bug.
|
| date -u -s 1401
| Wed Apr 18 20:01:00 UTC 2001
| date -u -s '1401 UTC'
| Wed Apr 18 14:01:00 UTC 2001
Thanks to both of you for the reports.
Bob, what version of date are you using? And on what type of system?
You are
date --version reports 2.0.
the doc says date -u will set the time in UTC, but it does not work the same
as date -s. For instance, date -s 1401 works fine; date -u 1901 does not.
Those two options are independent. -u is not a replacement for -s.
-u modifies the behavior of -s, and others,
I have noticed very strange bahaviour of sleep() function.
Here are two examples:
/* Ex1 */
printf("something1");
[...]
/* Ex2 */
printf("something1\n");
Could you please expalin me the differences between given examples,
except new lines \n in printf(). The "bug" is that in Ex1 both
Thank you -- may be a Unix-like hint is welcome?
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SEE ALSO
The full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and date programs are properly
installed at your site, the command
info date
should give you
I'm having a problem with the "test" utility.
I'm using Red Hat Linux v6.1 (Cartman) - Kernel 2.2.12-20 which I installed
not long ago.
Which shell are you using? The test command is a builtin command of
the shell. Therefore it is important to know the shell.
There is also an external
Hi, there is no way (only bootup-BIOS) to
change the system-time (hardwareclock).
Is this right ?? (suse Linux 7.1)
Read the man page for "hwclock" (historically aka /sbin/clock). [I
must remark that the hwclock man page stands out as exceptionally
good.]
Bob
the su command usually keeps track of the persons who have used the su
in /var/adm/sulog in almost all the unix versions
but could not find it here
Using RH 7.0 K 2.2.16-22
what is the fix for this ?
The GNU sh-utils version of su shipped by Redhat logs to syslogd which
has been
We are porting a product, whose install script uses the processor name
as part of a filename.On the box that we have, we are seeing
uname -p give: unknown and uname -a gives:
Linux linux1 2.2.14-12 #1 Tue Apr 25 13:04:07 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
(the system date is not set
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