1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

from the man page of su: EXAMPLES Example 1: Becoming User bin While Retaining Your Previously Exported Environment To become user bin while retaining your previously exported environment, execute: example% su bin Example 2: Becoming User bin and ... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm a oracle DBA with little knowledge of Unix. I wanted to write some shell scripts which will be helpful for DBA's regular activity. As i'm a new to oracle with unix can any plese tell me what are all the activities can be done throgh Unix Shell Scripts also suggest me how to learn... (1 Reply)

3. AIX

Anyone have a better idea to automate extraction of info like ... "uname" "ifconfig" "ps efl" "netstat -ao" etc. from several hundred aix, solaris, red hat boxes? without logging into each box and manually performing these tasks and dumping them to individual files? thanks for any input (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hiya all ... i am a newbie to UNIX, Just want to knwo what this command does: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}' I think, 'grep shows the line with 'inet addr' (which is the 2nd line, displaying the IP Address, Broadcast Address and Subnet Mask) ... Is... (8 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have this working ksh, and it returns like below: LOGICAL VOLUME: prod_2048_005 VOLUME GROUP: prod1vg TYPE: raw WRITE VERIFY: off PHYSICAL VOLUME: hdisk108 VOLUME GROUP: prod1vg TOTAL PPs: 1023 (130944 megabytes) VG DESCRIPTORS: 1 USED PPs: 904 (115712 megabytes) MAX REQUEST: 1 megabyte... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Somewhat long story: I have a simple Perl CGI script that uses Expect to Telnet to a device and grab some data, and then spits it back to Perl for display on the Webpage. This works for many devices I've tried, but one device just fails, it keeps rejecting the password on this device, only... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a process that is running locally on the machine. When you telnet to the process: telnet IP port, it automatically returns a string which shows the status of that process. Something like this: # telnet IP Port Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I was writing one script which includes to switch to the another telnet automatically from the present telnet server. I was using rlogin but firstly it takes the same user name of the present telnet and secondly it is prompting for the password. But i want to switch to the another telnet... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I want to know the difference between these two services. Both are under xinetd. Both are used for enabling and disabling Telnet service. So, can somebody please explain me the difference between the two ? Thanks in advance :) (0 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Team, I am using one script, It is working fine, the problem is it gives unwanted telnet errors when I am using it. I just want to remove these unwanted errors/info from my screen. bash-3.00$ cat raza_site_temp #!/usr/bin/bash #rj835b IFS="|" REGEX="$*" echo snarf2 -c "show... (2 Replies)