1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hey fellows, hope you can help me, in advance thanks. I work on a sco unix 3.2 system and I've had a host lock up error message, I wan to know if there is a releasse note for an upgrade where I can see this bug is reported and fixed. Can somebody help me? THANKS!!! Thank you very much... (1 Reply)

2. HP-UX

Hi , How should i implemet a lock function Hp-ux . I want to a lock a file through fcntl in Hp-ux . But is not locking properly . Thanks Narendra (7 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have an Essbase installation on Solaris 10 and need to get the backups configured. Unfortunately several key files are locked and Essbase (OLAP application) is not releasing the locks when the Essbase or the applications within stop running. It appears I can use chmod to unlock the files but I... (0 Replies)

4. Red Hat

Hello all, If anyone has time, I have a few questions: How do I do the following in Linux. We are using Red Hat and Oracle Enterprise Linux, which is based on Red Hat too. 1. How to lock the account after a few (like 3) invalid password attempts? 2. How do you lock a screen after 30... (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all, I have to test some user priviliges. The goal is to be sure that an unauthorized user can't restart some modules (ssh, mysql etc...). I'm trying to automate it with a shell script but in same cases I got the syslog broadcast message. Is there any way to simply get a return code... (3 Replies)

6. Red Hat

Hi, I have a simple question : how to disable screen lock and/or sreen saver with command line with RHEL5.4 ? (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to write a code where in the file once taken genrates a lock number and other developer/user cannot take the file to make any changes in it. He gets the file only as read only. (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Requirement:First i need to unlock the directory which i had a script for it.If i select app1 it should unlock the directory and after chnages in the script once need to lock the directory with lock command The below highlighed variables in lock and unlock has to be changed according... (2 Replies)