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Suchitra Joshi U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 9.79 Clarity of Response 9.71 Timeliness 9.79 Politeness 10.0 Total Questions 99	I can answer questions related to Basic Unix commands, shell scripts, sed, awk, job scheduling & vi editor.
nix Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 9.78 Clarity of Response 9.75 Timeliness 9.76 Politeness 9.85 Total Questions 3189	UNIX, programing, C, C++, awk, shell scripts, Web, HTTP, Apache, firewall, AltaVista firewall, E-Mail, sendmail, IMAP4 POP3, DNS, NTP, system administration, TCP/IP, security
John H. U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 9.70 Clarity of Response 9.74 Timeliness 9.74 Politeness 9.96 Total Questions 111	Anything relevant to Unix/Linux architecture. Everything from the boot process up to application or system-specific information.
Bill Isaacs U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 10.0 Clarity of Response 9.55 Timeliness 9.91 Politeness 10.0 Total Questions 46	I can answer questions as to the nature of open source unix (linux), where it came from, how it works, how to find key information for troubleshooting your system, how to install dual-boot OS's, how to obtain and install linux applications which replace Microsoft applications, how to parse log files, how to write simple shell, awk and sed scripts to accomplish useful tasks, and a host of other linux questions. I can answer questions about Apache, DNS and SMTP. I can walk a layperson through the steps necessary to compile downloaded source code, and when this is actually necessary. Also, I can answer questions about wireless networking with linux, and basic concepts of TCP/IP. I cannot answer questions about C or C , or for that matter any compileable language.
Matt Blecha U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 9.79 Clarity of Response 9.89 Timeliness 9.82 Politeness 9.96 Total Questions 306	I can answer questions pertaining to most Linux daemons, Apache, Sendmail, SpamAssassin, vsftpd, Asterisk and others. I do not deal with Qmail, Postfix, or other MTAs, and have minimal experience with Procmail. I am very in depth with Samba and Linux/Windows integration and Asterisk based PBX systems. I also have considerable experience in both PHP and MySQL (installation, administration, and programming of both.) I am also considerably familiar with kernel systems, and networking stacks.
Denis Mello Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 9.78 Clarity of Response 9.78 Timeliness 9.83 Politeness 10.0 Total Questions 94	I have been working with Linux distributions over the last 3 years. I have experience with Linux Security, shell-scripts and network troubleshooting.
Robert McIntosh U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 9.91 Clarity of Response 9.96 Timeliness 9.89 Politeness 9.96 Total Questions 213	Installation, Administration, typical tcp/ip services (sendmail, apache, qmail, tomcat, hylafax, etc.), Linux as desktop
mkitwrk U.S. On Vacation returns 11/30/2009 View Profile View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 10.0 Clarity of Response 10.0 Timeliness 9.93 Politeness 10.0 Total Questions 116	Expert: Creating and managing *nix database/application servers for use with dl4/unibasic/mysql/apache/thoroughbred applications, espcially in medical environments. Strengths: scripting, backup and disaster recovery, routing, samba/smbfs/cifs, LPRng, CUPS, telnet/ssh/sftp, vsftp, rsync, new system preparation, system duplication, database design, system conversions (AIX/SCO-OS5/Linux) Familiar With: apache/apache-ssl, mysql, php, c, awk, sed, gnome, nfs

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2009-11-20 booting failure:

Things that will help: Knowing the hardware configuration of the disk subsystem (RAID, IDE, SCSI, SAS, etc.) Knowing the base filesystem layout that exists on the disk subsystem. (/root, /usr, /u, etc

2009-11-16 multiple arguments to a sciprt in bash:

Hi. This highly depends on your definition of "feed". Even what you did here can be handled: cat arguments.txt | ./script or even simpler: ./script.sh < arguments.txt The script should do

2009-11-15 multiple argements to script:

Hi Karll, You can try using the bash getopts function. Please see the below link- http://bashcurescancer.com/the-60-second-getopts-tutorial.html Or you can parse the file of arguments as given

2009-11-15 multiple argements to script:

Here's one way: (echo -e "set -- \c"; cat arguments.txt; cat ./script) | bash Another way is to accumulate the args and create a second (temporary) script and execute it. (echo -e "./script \c"; cat

2009-11-09 UNIX:

Hi. For inter-process communication, you can use 2 things: IPC Message Queues and files. For message queues, see man pages http://linux.die.net/man/7/mq_overview For files, you can create ordinary