1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi Experts, I am starting my unix servers with truss cmd and taking truss output in a file . But when I run it for considerabely long time, it is not stopping easily on doing ^C ..... It is taking lotz of ctrl-C's to stop. Please let me know is there any other way to stop truss except ^C and... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All Here is the details what i want to achieve from shell scripts I have a sever where 5 databases are created. which i having diffrent SID's. Now i want to execute some SQL queries on each one of the databases. (SQL Query is same).That i want to acheive via crontab Now each one of the... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have here a script which is used to purge older files/directories based on defined purge period. The script consists of 45 find commands, where each command will need to traverse through more than a million directories. Therefore a single find command executes around 22-25 mins... (7 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi , We have 20 jobs are scheduled. In that one of our job is taking long time ,it's not completing. If we are not terminating it's running infinity time actually the job completion time is 5 minutes. The job is deleting some records from the table and two insert statements and one select... (7 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I am trying to remove some characters from my data file. The data file has huge number of records say 90000 records. I am using sed for this purpose. eg : cat FILENAME|sed 's/;//g' (to remove semi colon ';') However as the data file is too huge , it is taking too much time to give... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Legends, Please help me to come out of the below Bermuda triangle. I have four inputs in a shell script: A B C D Now, If A is passed by user then, B C D will be ignored. If C is passed by user, then A B D will be ignored. Regards, Sandy (11 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone. Silly might be silly be I'm still new to bash. I'm trying to make an Alarm Clock for in the morning using my laptop i have wrote this Simple Script but i cant work out how to play it at a certain time. #!/bin/bash cd /home/josh/Music/Bruno_Mars/Hooligans/ cvlc... (8 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, All the data are kept on Netapp using NFS. some directories are so fast when doing ls but few of them are slow. After doing few times, it becomes fast. Then again after few minutes, it becomes slow again. Can you advise what's going on? This one directory I am very interested is giving... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello, I am trying to run a script through crontab and it runs the first time and then it does not run. I tried to run a simple script (as shown below) and I see the same issue. #!/bin/ksh clear echo "Good Morning, World." > /tmp/test123 Crontab Entry: 30 09 * * *... (9 Replies)

10. Red Hat

Hi, I schedule a script on linux server and it is taking more time say "30 minutes" to send the report via mail. Could you please suggest a way to speed up sending report to mail? OS version -- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) Regards, Maddy (2 Replies)