1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I am not able to edit crontab. Following is the comand that is being issued $crontab -e 2764 ............ This is what I am able to see But when I do $crontab -l List of all the crontab entry is displayed. Also I am seeing one entry in my /etc/cron.d prw------- 1 root ... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have 2 files:- file1 and file2 file1 SEED RPTT TST8 file2 SEED:db1:Y RPTT:db2:Y SED8:db2:N TST8:db:Y TRN8:db:N CNV8:db:Y TEST:db:Y I have to change third field of file2 to "y" for every entry in file1 matches first filed of file 2 and rest to N (2 Replies)

3. Solaris

Hi since we migrated from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 I do miss a nice feature when editing crontab with vim editor: no more color highlighting after starting to edit. Well there is a hack, see below. I did define: export EDITOR='vim -c ":source /export/home/duc904/.vimrc"' Under Sol8 when... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to set up a file with crontab to run the cron deamon so I can use at to schedule jobs. I think the crontab file (or whatever you call it) has to be set up. Currently, I don't have a crontab file (I checked by typing sudo crontab -u myusername -l), and I don't know the syntax for creating... (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, Ref: "build crontab from a text file" in same forum. (I am not allowed to post URL's in the first post) We are reorganizing our UNIX Crontab file by first making changes in a word pad text file. The intent is to then copy it back to Crontab. Will this work? Copy and Paste does not... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am trying the following I am hoping that the crontab would be changed. but it prints the previous crontab and says Can anyone tell me the correct ksh command that should be used here? I don't want to edit the crontab with crontab -e, I need to edit it via ksh. Thank... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file which has 10 million records in it. When am trying to edit the file with vi, the following error occurs: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "file1" Value too large for defined data type Is there any way that I can edit this file without using vi? Any help would be really appreciated.... (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Geeks I am working on trimming the logs and extracting the XMLs from it. I am facing one problem here. My XML String is ending with ...........Request></Body></Envelope>S/R sometimes there is more then just S/R in the end. I want to delete anything comes after </Envelope>... (3 Replies)

9. Solaris

Hi, OS - SunOS I gave crontab -e then it returns zero. $ crontab -e 0 ? ? Crontab status - $ ps -ef | grep cron root 2481 1 0 May 12 ? 0:18 /usr/sbin/cron Please help (9 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Guru's I'm using Putty and want to edit a file. I know we generally use vi editor to do it. As I'm not good in using vi editor, I want to convert the vi into something like text pad. Is there any option in Putty to do the same ? Thanks for your response. Srini (6 Replies)