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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting The scope of the shell/perl script is to read the input text file. Validate the expiry date of each Post 302516007 by vgersh99 on Thursday 21st of April 2011 10:35:15 AM
Old 04-21-2011
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Originally Posted by casmo
thanks for your reply pludi

This is the requirement I got from my management to validate the expiry date. Please help me
We would ask you again to show your own effort in resolving your own issue/task. We can only help you to help yourself....

Here's a starter pseudo-code:
  1. Get today date in the format: YYYYMMDD
  2. Convert the date in the last field of every line/record into the same YYYYMMDD format
  3. Subtract 2 from 1
  4. If the result of the subtraction is less than 4, tag the record/line for mailing
  5. Mail all the tagged records/line to a designated address.
Last edited by vgersh99; 04-21-2011 at 11:43 AM..
 

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fwtmp

fwtmp(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 fwtmp(1M)

NAME

       fwtmp, wtmpfix - manipulate connect accounting records

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/acct/fwtmp [-ic]

       /usr/lib/acct/wtmpfix [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       fwtmp  reads  from  the	standard input and writes to the standard output, converting binary records of the type found in /var/adm/wtmpx to
       formatted ASCII records.  The ASCII version is useful when it is necessary to edit  bad records.

       wtmpfix examines the standard input or named files in utmpx format, corrects the time/date stamps  to  make  the  entries  consistent,  and
       writes  to the standard output.	A hyphen (-) can be used in place of file to indicate the standard input. If time/date corrections are not
       performed, acctcon(1M) will fault when it encounters certain date-change records.

       Each time the date is set, a pair of date change records are written to /var/adm/wtmpx. The first record is the old  date  denoted  by  the
       string  "old time" placed in the line field and the flag OLD_TIME placed in the type field of the utmpx structure. The second record speci-
       fies the new date and is denoted by the string new time placed in the line field and the flag NEW_TIME placed in the  type  field.  wtmpfix
       uses these records to synchronize all time stamps in the file.

       In addition to correcting time/date stamps, wtmpfix will check the validity of the name field to ensure that it consists solely of alphanu-
       meric characters or spaces. If it encounters a name that is considered invalid, it will change the login name to INVALID and write a  diag-
       nostic to the standard error. In this way, wtmpfix reduces the chance that acctcon will fail when processing connect accounting records.

OPTIONS

       -ic	Denotes that input is in ASCII form, and output is to be written in binary form.

FILES

       /var/adm/wtmpx	       history of user access and administration information

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWaccu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       acctcom(1),  ed(1),  acct(1M),  acctcms(1M),  acctcon(1M),  acctmerg(1M),  acctprc(1M),	acctsh(1M),  runacct(1M),  acct(2), acct.h(3HEAD),
       utmpx(4), attributes(5)

       System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

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