1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I know that this topic has been discuss numerous times, and I have search the net and this forum for it. However, non able to address the problem I faced so far. I am on Solaris Platform and unable to install additional packages like the GNU date and gawk to make use of their... (5 Replies)

2. Red Hat

Hi, My Linux VMs are running on citrix XEN.Somehow the time drift is too high (going very fast). Even if the correct time configured using date -s command, for every 1 hr it is differing almost 5 - 10 mins. Tried configuring ntpd (local NTP server) and still it is not synchronized. Machine... (2 Replies)

3. Red Hat

Evening, I'm posting for help here, because I'll be honest I've reached the end of my tether, hopefully someone can give me some assistance and help me maintain a level of sanity... I maintain a number of webservers on RHEL 5 64Bit (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)), the... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'd like to convert a date string in the form of sun aug 19 09:03:10 EDT 2012, to unixtime timestamp using awk. I tried This is how each line of the file looks like, different date and time in this format Sun Aug 19 08:33:45 EDT 2012, user1(108.6.217.236) all: test on the 17th ... (2 Replies)

5. Solaris

I have a cluster of two Solaris server (veritas cluster). one working and the other is standby I am going to change the date on them , and am looking for a secure solution as it is giving an important service. my opinion is that the active one doesn't need to be restarted (if I don't change the... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, This is my first script in PERL. Hence require your help in moving further. I have a script which should populate the values for Today, Yesterday output. For which I use timeFrame as a variable to obtain the time in hrs:mm as 10:00. All I want is, I want my timeFrame to start... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I needed some help in adding a duration (in seconds) to a start time (in hhmmss format) and a start date (in mmddyy format) in order to get an end date and end time. The concept of a leap year is also to be considered while incrementing the day. The code/ function that I have formed so far is as... (3 Replies)

8. Red Hat

I had the query of what would be the right approach to change the time on the RHEL server. I have the following ways to do that: 1) # date -s "2 OCT 2006 18:00:00" Or # date --set="2 OCT 2006 18:00:00" 2) # date +%Y%m%d -s "20081128" The second option though would only change... (4 Replies)

9. IP Networking

Hello, I'm attempting to setup a test network with a client-server based architecture using a proprietary application. The client works by communicating with the server on separate links (typically cellular connections) and then initiates a tunnel over each active link. However, in place of the... (0 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

We have a lot of scripts using cut as : cut -c 0-8 --works for cut (GNU coreutils) 5.97, but does not work for cut (GNU coreutils) 8.4. Gives error - cut: fields and positions are numbered from 1 Try `cut --help' for more information. The position needs to start with 1 for later... (6 Replies)