1. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Hello, The system reboots in single user mode what command to use to bring the system up regularly?? I get INIT: cannot create /var/adm/utmpx Type control -d to proceede with a normal startup or give root passwd for system maintaince. either way i don't have a change and ... (1 Reply)

2. What is on Your Mind?

Welcome to "The trouble with...." with your host, ZazzyBob. Todays offering - "The trouble with letting other people host your website" I use a certain web hosting service, who shall of course remain nameless here. They are running PHP 4.3.10 I decide to write a script to test their PHP... (6 Replies)

3. Solaris

I'm not sure where to post this but it's happening on a SunOS 5.8 server so I'll try here. I've discovered some unexpected behavior when using tr. For example: echo a | tr Z echo b | tr a echo a | tr B echo a | tr B echo a | tr A (8 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi there, I'm new to unix-environments. I'm richard, and i'm mostly a web-developer, under php. I've done work in unix env before, but never had my own. Today, I've got debian 3.1 r4 from the official site, and i've attempted to install it twice. I installed it initially as "Desktop... (0 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

i'm on a Mac running BSD unix. i have a script in which i ask the user to input the name of a mounted volume. i then call SED to substitute backslashes and spaces in place of the spaces. that looks like this: echo "Enter the name of the volume" read Volume echo "You've chosen \"$Volume\""... (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, im writing a script that validates a URL (the parameter) using http://validator.w3.org first it downloads the site (the output line I want is stored in the h2 field of the site's html. wget http://validator.w3.org/check?url=$1 2> /dev/null sed -n '/<h2/p' check?uri=$1 | sed 's/... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi people, i'm having a hard time trying to extract a list of vars delimited by section inside a ini file ... let's consider this ini file : ; config file DESC = "channel synchro TGG01" DMM_VER = DMM23 PATH_FIFO = /users/tgg00/fifo QRT = BTS01.TGG.01.2 MODE_TRACE... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys, I know that title is a mouthful - I'll try to better explain my struggles a little better... What I'm trying to do is: 1. Query a db and output to a file, a list of column data. 2. Then, for each line in this file, repeat these values but wrap them with: ITEM{ ... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Here is my code #!/bin/bash username=gnowicki sed '$s/$/ $username/' < sshd_config 1 <> sshd_config what this is supposed to do is take the name gnowicki and put it at the end of the last line of the sshd_config and it works except not using the variable, if I put the name "gnowicki" where... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i have a control file which i need to read. It is ',' separated. the 3rd parameter will be ';' separated. I have 2 files: /home/orig.txt /home/join.txt I need a O/P file name based on firstparameter_1.txt and it should have the content of /home/orig.txt and appended content from... (2 Replies)