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- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Need some help (info.) on background process, passwd, etc.
- Message-ID: <5375@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 06:41:02 GMT
- References: <BrLxux.4D0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
- Lines: 21
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- In article <BrLxux.4D0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> elvis@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (I am THE Elvis P.) writes:
- > 1) I can't seem to find any password program, i.e. programs that allow
- >the user to change his/her password (like "passwd" in most unix systems).
-
- The source to the passwd program distributed in the MCC interim version of
- Linux can be found in mcc-interim/0.96c/source_files/misc.tar.Z, which is
- in /pub/linux at ftp.mcc.ac.uk, in /pub/Linux/mirrors/uk.mirror at
- banjo.concert.net, and somewhere on tsx-11.mit.edu as well. This program
- was written by R. E. Wolff.
-
- > 2) How do you run things in the background and switch among them?
- >Also, is there commands like "ps" and "kill"?
-
- The ps command is in ps096b.tar.Z, which can be found on most sites; at
- MCC it is in /pub/linux/misc. The kill command is a bash internal
- command, and there is an executable as well: the one distributed as part
- of the MCC interim version of Linux can be found in the misc.tar.Z file
- described above.
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-