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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding/replacing strings in some files based on a file Post 302670673 by feeva666 on Thursday 12th of July 2012 10:08:09 AM
Old 07-12-2012
I'm sorry to grab the topic out but i really I need your help. I wanted to post a question in the forum but i am only like 15 minutes new user here. Here is the problem.

I have a script that has been running in my local account since 2011 with no problems.
Then few days back my whole script folder was missing. Our IT advised me it cannot
be restored so I tried to restore my backup and it was successful.

With the accidental removal I asked them to have the script and cronjob owned and executed by the root so that the folder and files are protected from any deletion ( Im using common account).

OK here is the problem. The IT brought the script to their account and cronjob also with
no problems. The next day, other users were complaining they have missing files in their login accounts.

IT blamed the culprit: Cronjob execution of my script caused the missing files from other folders and accounts.

My Home Account : MSLP1

Others (MSLP2/MSLP3/MSLP4) I have no access.

Here is the code. header Pls. help me review and tell myself that what I did was to specifically delete a file from a specific folder. I was hoping that I did not cause the files to get deleted from other accounts or folders as what our IT have advised.


variable declarations:

set scr = /export/home1/MSLP1/engg_data/SDCHECK
set tmp = $scr/temp


Code that caused the deletion when ran in root account.


find $tmp/tmpver -mtime +1 -exec rm -f {} \; >& /dev/null


Where: tmpver is a textfile I wanted to validate and delet if older than 1 day.


I really hope you can reply to me so I can sleep properly not thinking I caused trouble to my work.
 

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logins

LOGINS(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 LOGINS(1)

NAME

     logins -- display account information

SYNOPSIS

     logins [-admopstux] [-g groups] [-l logins]

DESCRIPTION

     The logins utility displays information about user and system accounts.

     The following options are available:

     -a 	Display information about the password change and account expiration times for each account.

     -d 	Select accounts with duplicate UIDs.

     -g groups	Select accounts that are members of the specified groups.  If multiple group names are specified, they must be separated with com-
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     -l logins	Select accounts matching the specified login names.  If multiple names are specified, they must be separated with commas.

     -m 	Show information about secondary groups.

     -o 	Display the information for each account on a single line of colon-separated fields.

     -p 	Select accounts with no password.

     -s 	Select system accounts.  These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs below 1000, plus the ``nobody'' account (UID 65534).

     -t 	Sort selected accounts by name rather than by UID.

     -u 	Select user accounts.  These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs above 1000, except the ``nobody'' account (UID 65534).

     -x 	Display information about each account's home directory and shell.

     If multiple selection options are specified, all accounts matching any of the selection criteria will be displayed.

     If no selection options are specified, all accounts will be displayed.

SEE ALSO

     getgrent(3), getpwent(3), group(5), passwd(5), pw(8)

HISTORY

     The logins utility appeared in FreeBSD 4.10.

AUTHORS

     The logins utility was written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> based on similar utilities in other operating systems.

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