1. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

As a UNIX newbie, how can I create a (cron)script that rotates my syslogs on AIX 4.3.3 on a 24 hour basis and compresses the old logs ? TIA ! (1 Reply)

2. AIX

I have a Unix based server running Sagitta and the server is giving me an error of 4b10004 and my research tells me this is an EPROM issue, which means the processor needs to be flashed or repaired. Once up and running where can I go to get updates for Unix? (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to write a script which would go search and get the info from the logs based on yesterday timestamp and write yesterday logs in new file. The log file format is as follows: """"""""""""""""""""""""""... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Members, I have a table REQUESTS in Oracle which has an attribute REQUEST_ACTION. The entries in REQUEST_ACTION are like, ME, MD, ND, NE etc. I would like to create a script which will will call other scripts based on the request action. Can we directly read from the REQUEST_ACTION... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

So I have a script that runs as a non-root user, lets say the username is 'xymon' . This script needs to log on to a remote system as a non-root user also and call up a bash script that runs another bash script as root. in short: user xymon on system A needs to run a file as root user and have... (2 Replies)

6. Solaris

Dear all, i have two users user1 and user2 i want force user1 to login first by user2 and then su - user1 i want to prevent logging user1 from console directly (5 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hello guys, on Solaris 10 os, I have this problem, When I finger one user it points to 2 user why so, -bash-3.2$ finger machova Login name: machovp In real life: raju Machova (LIB FinAcct User) Directory: /users/cz/182/machovp Shell: /usr/bin/ksh Never... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have been searching for some advice on this. I'm new to linux in a sys-admin kind of role, and I'm often asked to get information by running basic commands in the linux shell. For example, how many jobs running, grep a number of files, run a random program and output the results,... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Appreciate help for the below issue. Im using below code.....I dont want to attach the logs when I ran the perl twice...I just want to take backup with today date and generate new logs...What I need to do for the below scirpt.............. 1)if logs exist it should move the logs with extention... (1 Reply)