1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have a process to terminate, and when keying Control C/ kill -int , it takes 15 minutes to half an hour to terminate the process. I've tried using kill -2, or keying control c twice, however the process seem to be killed abruptly, without writing into the log file. So the only way in order to... (8 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

any idea on how to timeout the read statement for ksh? for bash u can use read -t option -t timeout Cause read to time out and return failure if a complete line of input is not read within timeout seconds. This option has ... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Is there any way to read the previous line in file reading ? or is there any way to read a line twice in KSH ? thanks in advance !! Srini (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am stuck with a problem while reading data from a file.. while do read line #do some operations and if some condition is satisfied, ask the user to enter his choice. # using the choice continue operations. done < fileBeingRead.txt The... (4 Replies)

5. Programming

hello everyone, I'm having a problem doing signal handling so I post this thread to see if I could get help. I want asynchronous signal handling, that means when I'm processing a signal (signal 1), if the same signal comes (signal 2) that signal (signal 2) shall be processed; and moreover,... (7 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi, I'm a newbie to shell scripting. I wanted to initialise an array using basic for loop and read it. Then i want to print it as a .CSV file.. Any help would me much appreciated.. (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I receive the following warning messages on a very new machine which has FreeBSD 8.1 x64 installed on it: Interrupt storm detected on "irq 20" throttling interrupt source It is unclear what this means and what its origins are (motherboard? CPU? RAM?). I can start the desktop and the message is... (4 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, all: Is there any shell command to show which interrupt handler handle which interrupt number in the system? li,kunlun (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have used a chunk of ksh script similar to this in many places without any issue: while : do print; read OPTION?"Enter a number (q to quit): " expr ${OPTION} + 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 CHECKVAL=$? if }" != ${OPTION} ]; then ... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings. This is my first post in this forum; I hope y'all find it useful. One caveat: "Concise" is my middle name. NOT! :D I am almost done with a shell script that runs as a daemon. It monitors a message log that is frequently written to by a database server but it it works my client will... (2 Replies)