Linux Quiz

[ravendark]

Originally posted by shn@24 February 2004 - 21:10

The word TWAIN is from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were selected, but the entry "Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues to haunt the standard. "

What is TWAIN an acronym for?

If you want to call it that. I suppose it makes a a little more sense

/takes bite of hummble pie

i stand corrected

/takes another bite

but ill find something interesting, you have my word.

[shn]

declare a variable that is defined to hold 256 char and then copy the input into your variable with strcpy()

[LSA]

Originally posted by shn@29 February 2004 - 03:58
declare a variable that is defined to hold 256 char and then copy the input into your variable with strcpy()

m4d skillz!

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Question:

How are .bash_profile, .bash_login and .bashrc different?

[leftism]

Originally posted by shn
declare a variable that is defined to hold 256 char and then copy the input into your variable with strcpy()

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
   char var[256];

   strcpy(var, argv[1]);
}

Buffer overflow time methinks

Code an exploit to create a shell by overflowing the stack when strcpy executes! (j/k)

[cselik]

Originally posted by LSA@29 February 2004 - 15:38
Question:
How are .bash_profile, .bash_login and .bashrc different?

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, it looks for: .bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile in that order. When bash is invoked as an non-login shell, it looks for .bashrc in the user's home directory.

q:
what progs r u gona use to share files with windows? i mean thru[My Network Places]?

[LSA]

Samba?

Question:

Give a command to find the current run level.

[cselik]

Originally posted by LSA@29 February 2004 - 23:16
Samba?

Question:

Give a command to find the current run level.

Samba is correct! still might need a fancy Web Administration interface / Tool

i think if u type runlevel you should be able to get some info, but only 4 root

my q:
what command would u type to count from 5 to 10 incrementing by 0.2 at a time?[script=half points]

[LSA]

'runlevel' works if you have /sbin in your path, so you get a point

[shn]

Originally posted by cselik+29 February 2004 - 19:57--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (cselik &#064; 29 February 2004 - 19:57)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-LSA@29 February 2004 - 23:16
Samba?

Question:

Give a command to find the current run level.

Samba is correct&#33; still might need a fancy Web Administration interface / Tool

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http://www.webmin.com/standard.html

[LSA]

In Slackware (), what script prepares the system before going into your desired runlevel?

Bump&#33;