1. Solaris

solaris 10 logged in as root to command line...want to shut the system down....could not do this....when i chose shutdown the system seemed to squawk at me saying i'd lose whatever i was working on would be lost unless i logged out...after proceeding through this it took me to the gui log in... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Exerts, I want to schedule a script which could run after every 35 minutes. please find below the command but it is not woring and running after every 35 minutes. 35 * * * * /opt/home/backup/test_dir/abc.sh > /opt/home/backup/test_dir/abc_cronlog.txt Please tell me what is the problem... (7 Replies)

3. AIX

Hi, After issuing shutdown -F or shutdown -F now my server is getting restarted. Any Idea? (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have Oracle 9i R2 on AIX 5.2. My Database is running in shared server mode (MTS). Sometimes when I shutdown the database it shutsdown cleanly in 4-5 mints and sometimes it takes good 15-20 minutes and then I get some ora-600 errors and only way to shutdown is by opening another session and... (7 Replies)

5. OS X (Apple)

I have a smart-ups connected to my OS X Snow Leopard server ver. 10.6. Based on the docs and forums I read, I have been trying to use the software provided by APC, PCNS. I have also tried to just use the UPS communications cable provided and use the OS' "UPS options". Neither of them work exactly... (1 Reply)

6. AIX

Hi, is there a difference between shutdown -Fand shutdown -h now? (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi everyone I'm newbie in this forum hope I can get some help here :) I have a command in crontab that executed every 1 minute sometime this command need more than 1 minute to finish the problem is, the crontab execute this command although it's not finish processing yet and causing the system... (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

This is probably a simple question, but I'm new with writing scripts for Linux (IPFire in this case) and Google wasn't helpful with this. When creating a script, what is the best and/or proper way to have it exit automatically if the reboot or shutdown command is given? If that's even... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear All, I created a small script to get the CPU, GIS usage etc automatically. However when i run this script manually its working , but when i run through cronjob i am not getting any output. Can anyone please help me on this. I am using SuseLinux. Thank you in advance. #!/bin/sh {... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a backup script that runs an rsync backup to an external drive. I use the script frequently on Windows and Linux and have installed it on a Mac. The script has an option to run shutdown after the backup has completed. Since backup can take hours to run, this is an option that is... (10 Replies)