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How can I use VI to find a "/"? For example, I have a script which moves a lot of files to another directory. The directory structure in the script is wrong so I want to search for "$HOME/stnd_by/one" and replace it with just "$HOME/one" if I do: :%s/stnd_by//g I end up with "$HOME//one" on...

I want to be able to show the details of all tables, ie, the table name, the colums and their lengths. Something similar to "desc" in Oracle. I need to do this to all the tables in my MS Sql database and to get a list of the data output. I.E: Table1 name of table 1 column1 length column2 length...

Hi, How can I view the physical disk layout in linux? Not a df -k to show the partitions, but how many disk and of what size are present on the machine. A bit like windows when you go to computer manager and look up disk manager. Thanks.

I am haveing trouble with our virus software. Basiclly the software creates a user account which is then used to access the repository server to get updates for user workstations. This account keeps locking out which is stopping the updates from taking place on a number of computers. I...

Im trying to create a linked server in MSSQL query analyser to connect the MS SQL database running on Windows 2000 to an Oracle 9i system running on Linux. I have managed to get Oracle to talk to MS SQL but now need it working the other way around so that I can select data from MS SQL. The...

I am currently migrating a lot of SQL procedures that used to run on MS SQL and are now being accessed from Oracle 9i using Hetrogenous Connectivity. The following is the MS SQL select statment, but I am having real trouble getting it to work in Oracle. Its the inner join section that is...

I am currently migrating a lot of SQL procedures that used to run on MS SQL and are now being accessed from Oracle 9i using Hetrogenous Connectivity. The following is the MS SQL select statment, but I am having real trouble getting it to work in Oracle. Its the inner join section that is...

Help! Im getting thoroughly confused and irate! I am trying to connect an oracle 9i database which is running on Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4, to a MS SQL database which is running on Windows Server 2000. I have read the following document...

Can anyone shed some light on this problem. Firstly, we have a cron job which transfers all our redo logs from a primary database server to a standby database server. Both running Oracl9i on Red Hat Linux Ent 4. I'm trying to write a script to do a recover on the standby databse some time...

I have a file with one line in it. The line says: "spcc123.dbf" How can I just extract the number of this line? I want to string out this line and just read from the 5th character to the charater before the full stop. I cant work out whats the best way to do it.

Hello, can anyone help? I dont know if this is a oracle or a Linux problem. I have a few Linux shell scripts which when run as one user, say batch3, login to our oracle 9i database as a user and spool the output to a spool file - spool.opt. The problem is the spool.opt file is being created...

Hi, I am issueing the following command in sqlplus oracle client 9i on a windows XP PC which has the database on a linux Redhat 4 server. alter session set events '10046 trace name context forever, level 12'; If I run this statement remotely through the client it doesn't produce a trace file...

Hi, Is there such as thing as secure NFS? I have found one way, but dont thing it will do what I want. http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/ Basically, we currently have a remote drive on which is a linux share, mapped to a drive letter in windows, for example drive "M". All our software...

Hello, quick question. Will oracle 9i client work ok with Oracle 8 server?

Hi, I have a query about being able to allow users to select contacts from a mailbox address book. For example, user 1 has outlook and their own personal address book. They also have access to a mailbox that other users use, say called Finance. When they select a new email message and click...

Quick message. Maybe Im being stupid! running Red Hat enterprise 4. When I run the command "df -k" I only get shown the logical volume usage. I dont get a list of all folders /tmp /etc /dev... etc. Even issueing "df -k /tmp" it just shows same info system. df -all gives: /proc,/boot and...

Hi, I have a query about being able to allow users to select contacts from a mailbox address book. For example, user 1 has outlook and their own personla address book. They also have access to a mailbox that other users use, say called Finance. When the select a new email message and click...

Hi, Im new to Linux and today installed Ubuntu onto my Dell laptop. Everything went incredibly smoothly but I cant get my Belking 54G (F5D7010 Broadcom Chipset) wireless PCMCIA card to work. I have found I have to use ndiswrapper and have installed the latest version and followed the...

Ok, this is going to be a little long but bare with me: I have a laptop with a 54G wirless connection, 2.2 GHz machine. I have a PC which acts as a server with a 10/100 wired connection, and is a 2.8GHz Athalon machine. Both PC's use XP Pro. Both PC's are connected to an ADSL wireless router...

On my Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop I have a really annoying problem. When I open windows explorer and go to a folder full of jpeg files, it brings my pc to a standstill. This is because it is lowly turning the icon of each file from the icon associated with no file type, to the photoshop icon...