If you know the name of a particular user on your Unix system and just want to confirm the primary Unix group (gid) of this individual, just use the id command:
$ id -g greys 115
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If you know the name of a particular user on your Unix system and just want to confirm the primary Unix group (gid) of this individual, just use the id command:
$ id -g greys 115
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There's quite a few ways to confirm a user ID (uid) in Unix.
This is probably one of the easiest ways to find out a uid of a particular user in your system:
# id -u greys 500
The most common way of using the id command is even simpler, and it gives you all the information about a user you may need:
# id greys uid=500(greys) gid=500(greys) groups=500(greys)
This not only shows you the user id (uid), but also confirms user's group id (gid) and all the rest Unix groups a user belongs to.
bash (Bourne Again SHell) comes with pretty much every Unix-like OS these days. If you ever wonder what exact version of bash shell you have on your system, here's how you find out: just use the –version parameter in the command line.
On RedHat Linux, this is how it might look:
bash-2.05b$ /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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I've noticed how many people found other pages of this blog trying to find more information about Unix sockets, and so I thought it's about time we shed some light on this seeming mysterious, but really simple concept.
A Unix socket (the technically correct name for it is Unix domain socket, UDS) is a way of inter-process communication (IPC) in Unix. Like almost everything in Unix, a socket is a file. It's a special file, to be precise. Unix processes which want to communicate between each other use special set of functions to access the special file of a Unix socket, and easily exchange data in both directions.
In very simple terms, a Unix socket is nothing but a byte stream – a data transfer between processes running locally or on networked Unix systems.
sudo allows you to run a Unix command as a different user. Using /etc/sudoers file to confirm what privileges are available to you, this command effectively elevates your access rights, thus allowing you to run commands and access files which would otherwise be not available to you.
The real and effective user id (uid) and group id (gid) are set to match those of the target user as specified in /etc/sudoers file (the safest way to change this file is to use the visudo command – check out the visudo tutorial). The way you use sudo is simple enough: you run this command and specify a command line you'd like to run with the privileges of a different user. Before the requested command is run, you are asked to confirm your identify by providing your user password.
This is a very brief introduction into navigating the device paths in Solaris. I'm using a Solaris 10 installed on Sun v490 for all the commands shown below.
Even though all the block and character special device files are traditionally found under /dev directory, if you look closer at your Solaris 10 setup you will notice that they're not the device files themselves, but instead are just symbolic links to device files under /devices directory.
Solaris uses /devices directory for representing all the physical hierarchy of installed devices and buses found on your hardware system.
Looking at this website access logs, I see how many people share the same problems and look for the same solutions, but use vastly different search queries to get to my posts.
I've decided to make your life easier, and have just launched a Unix Tutorial Reference page, which is an index of pages based on your searches. Most pages will have a basic introduction to the topic and provide further pointers to the solution posts.
Finding the compiler version in your Unix system should be the first step before you attempt to compile any package from its source codes. In fact, if you're familiar with the common compilation routine, the configure script which you run to generate the Makefile before compiling anything does exactly that – it finds out which compilers (if any) you have installed on your system, and confirms their versions and capabilities.