1. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Hi all & anyone. I'm trying to selectively backup up some old Apache log files before they are removed from the system (Slackware box). Have created a file listing of what I want backed up ...Below is a portion of the file ./selectedbkup... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, 1 - How to select files to tar from a dir (indir) to the tar command? 2 - How to select the target directory where the files in a tar file should go to - I know that by default, tar remembers the path and restores files to that path. I am using HP-UX Thanks. (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

So here is what I got i have these directories names app-config app-exploded conf gen logs match src target currently i do: tar -cvf file.tar conf gen logs match src target What i want to do is: tar -cvf file.tar (exclude any dir with "app" in it) How can i... (1 Reply)

4. Programming

Stupid question, but is there an ANSI C stdlib function that will do this for me? I want to pass the function a path and determine if the current process can read/write/execute on the path. I suppose I can whip something up using fstat and then determining the current process's user/group IDs and... (6 Replies)

5. Solaris

Hi I can't write to fs "/share/nfs" shared by nfs server despite properly setting RW permissions. NFS server is configured on CentOS and Solaris10 is client. CentOS NFS Server config : -------------------------------- Entries in /etc/exports file : # cat /etc/exports /inst ... (6 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can you describe how to give privileges to the user in normal use of your folder / home / user To be able to properly use Git and other applications of Python I've done something like chown-R myuser / home / myuser But there were some problems with Git commits.... like link unavailabe and... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Thanks for previous help. How to include this in script, I need to tar files which are present in /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory (used for crontab) excluding those files which are having extension .au /var/spool/cron/crontabs>>ls -ltr | grep -v .au total 438 -rw------- 1... (11 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm trying to use find in kshell (AIX) to find all files with perms of write for other AND any execute bit set. e.g: r--r-x-w- would qualify and rw-rw--wx would qualify but ---rwxr-xr-x wouldn't qualify So far, I've been trying something like this: find . -type f -perm... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I making a script to restore apache from a configuration_backup tar. For now i want at the beginning of the script that you can make a choice to choose one of the configuration_backup tars. I use this code now: `locate /restore/configuration/configuration_backup*` But if i use this i get... (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How do I create a tar file for only dir and its subdir structures?? (4 Replies)