1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm writing an application (Progress language) that needs to: 1) load the contents of a cron table into the Progress application; 2) display this information in a human manner and allow a select group of people to update it (these people are logged in as themselves, not as root); 3) save... (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi scripting experts, juz wondering if it's possible to have multiple rsh command in a single script? :confused: ie: rsh -l <username> "<command>" rsh -l <username> "<command>" thanks. regards, wee :) (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I currently run a script over a vpnc tunnel to back-up my data to a remote server. However for a number of reasons the tunnel often collapses. If I manually restore the tunnel then the whole thing can continue, but I want to add into my script a section whereby while the transfer is taking place,... (8 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I made this script for TRU Unix 5.1 OS based Node. When the script was run manually all the commands were running properly. But when it was run from Crontab, one command is not running. This command is not running when the script is running from Crontab: #... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Does not work. #!/usr/bin/perl $etcdir = 'ls -l /etc'; print $etcdir; #END ------------result-------- #perl -w abc123.pl ls -l /etc # This method works. #!/usr/bin/perl $etcdir = system("ls -l /etc"); print $etcdir; #END (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script that calls another script within it that takes about 1 hour to execute. I am noticing that the parent script that calls the child script is getting killed. Does anyone know why? The child script still runs. (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi.. i have one perl script called sendsms.pl. After i execute the perl script as background process and run ps -ef, it did not display the filename. It was display as "/usr/bin/perl". How could execute the perl program and display the filename using ps command ? #./sendsms & #ps -ef |grep... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi. I have a ksh script I want to run, but I'm connecting through a telnet and I don't want to FTP the scripts itself. is there a way of running the script from command line ? like ksh "The script itself..." Thanks, Ramon (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a script running while rsync command is fired to push some files. The output of rsync cmd has been redirected to the script which is used to generate log files containing progress info with formatting. when I enter ps -ef | grep rsync it shows the full scripting code on the cmd line... (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi , I am a total beginner so bear with me. I have the below code which works . I need to extend it by iterating thru the array arr and executing a command in each loop. some thing on the lines of below. I need to run this in a Jenkins script , so I would need below bash script to run... (6 Replies)