1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I just implemented PAM on my Solris 8/9 boxes and one of the entries I have got in the /etc/pam.conf is as followed, other password required pam_unix.so nullok remember=7 md5 shadow use_authtok However, once I set this and the following meesages appears in /var/adm/messages... (1 Reply)

2. Solaris

when i am executing setfacl -Rm u:ggoyal2:rwx,m:rwx dir i am getting error bash-3.00# setfacl -Rm u:ggoyal2:rwx,m:rwx dir setfacl: illegal option -- R usage: setfacl -f aclfile file ... setfacl -d acl_entries file ... setfacl -m acl_entries file ... setfacl -s acl_entries file... (2 Replies)

3. Solaris

Hi All, Is it possible to run date -d option in Solaris? Do we have a work around so that -d option will be recognized by solaris as it is recognized by linux. I need this since i am using this in scripting and it works in Linux box. my problem is it doesn't work in solaris box. ... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello. i have a script, but in solaris i get this message sed: illegal option -- i whats wrong? With Ubuntu there is no problem. Thanks for help. #!/bin/bash for file in $(find /directory..../Test/*.txt -type f) do head -n 1 $file | egrep '^#!' if then sed -i '2i\Headertext'... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am trying to execute the following command in a sun solaris machine and getting the error as below. bash-2.03$ date -d "1 day ago" +%Y%m%d date: illegal option -- d bash-2.03$ uname -a SunOS gtrd02 5.8 Generic_117350-55 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440 Can anybody help me to... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to get the size of each file, but when I try to use stat -c %s <file> I get the message stat: illegal option -- c Also, the man page for stat shows readlink,stat. It doesn't seem to match the man pages I've seen online. what is going on here? (6 Replies)