how to run an application

hi guys

1) wat is ordinary files in the UNIX
2)how to run an application in the LINUX OS.
3) what are the files systems available in UNIX


pls guide me

On 2007-03-05, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> 1) wat is ordinary files in the UNIX

Everything is a file.

> 2)how to run an application in the LINUX OS.

run it.

> 3) what are the files systems available in UNIX

all of them

google is that way -->

Davide

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On 5 Mar 2007 00:35:03 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> hi guys
>
> 1) wat is ordinary files in the UNIX
> 2)how to run an application in the LINUX OS.
> 3) what are the files systems available in UNIX
>
>
> pls guide me

Give us your teacher's email address and we can send the answers for you.

Some research material found here
man fstab
http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/Mandrak...and-Line.html/
For a little more details, here is
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:35:03 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> hi guys
>
> 1) wat is ordinary files in the UNIX

The beauty of *nix is that it treats everything as a file. I would suppose
by 'ordinary' file you would mean something that exists on a filesystem
and is not a directory, not a link, not a pointer to a hardware device.

> 2)how to run an application in the LINUX OS.

Pick it out of a menu or type it's name.

> 3) what are the files systems available in UNIX

Too many to list. The appendix of the SUSE admin manual lists
characteristics of many.

>
>
> pls guide me

On Mar 5, 11:26 pm, ray <r...@zianet.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:35:03 -0800, ksrav...@gmail.com wrote:
> > hi guys
>
> > 1) wat is ordinary files in the UNIX
>
> The beauty of *nix is that it treats everything as a file. I would suppose
> by 'ordinary' file you would mean something that exists on a filesystem
> and is not a directory, not a link, not a pointer to a hardware device.
>
> > 2)how to run an application in the LINUX OS.
>
> Pick it out of a menu or type it's name.
>
> > 3) what are the files systems available in UNIX
>
> Too many to list. The appendix of the SUSE admin manual lists
> characteristics of many.
>
>
>
>
>
> > pls guide me- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

suppose i want to run yahoo messenger and mozzila browswer on
linux how to run that application . yahoo messenger has been
installed /opt directorry

On 6 Mar 2007 04:00:58 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> suppose i want to run yahoo messenger and mozzila browswer on
> linux how to run that application . yahoo messenger has been
> installed /opt directorry

You either add the path to the environment variable PATH or use the
whole path to the application, or put a link to it from a directory
found in $PATH.

If you do a echo $PATH and see /usr/local/bin somewhere
in the $PATH you can put a link in that directory. That is what I have
done for firefox and thunderbird.

$ ls -al /usr/local/bin
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 2 08:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Dec 25 08:42 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Mar 2 08:00 firefox -> /local/opt/firefox-2.0.0.2/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Mar 2 08:00 thunderbird -> /local/opt/thunderbird-1.5.0.9/thunderbird

to check after a link, you can do the command
type firefox
to see what would be found if you run the command firefox. See,

$ type firefox
firefox is /usr/local/bin/firefox