REAL LIFE STORY: We use software with concurrent licenses, which are managed on a UNIX server. The vendor supplies a program which simply displays the number of licenses currently being used, but it directs the output to /dev/tty (not stdout/stderr/file), and it is a compiled program so it cannot be directly altered using sudo permissions. I can only assume that the vendor is actively trying to prevent their customers from gathering statistics about their concurrent license usage, because the customer might find out they don't need so many licenses, contract for fewer licenses, and thus the vendor would loose money. The vendor has to provide some mechanism for determining license usage, but it's extremely limited. I would like to gather statistics every 15 minutes, find the maximum concurrent license usage, so we can contract to the vendor for the ideal number of licenses. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! --Paul.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 07-15-2013 at 10:49 PM..
Hi,
When it proccesing the backup with cpio report this message: Cannot open "/dev/tty" and cancel de backup.
Cuando se procesa la tarea del backup reporta el error: Cannot open "/dev/tty" y cancela el backup y no termina correctamente, a que se devera esta advertencia.
Gracias.
Thacks.... (3 Replies)
Hi, Anyone can help
My solaris 8 system has the following
/dev/null , /dev/tty and /dev/console
All permission are lrwxrwxrwx
Can this be change to a non-world write ??
any impact ?? (12 Replies)
hello all,
Being root, I would like to log user activity (also multiple root activity), i don't really like
history file based logging, lets assume that users have access to their .profile.
I would like to write a monitoring daemon in C that would capture /dev/ttys,
so I need to do a... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am having some problems understanding the info from the following output:
Disk /dev/sda: 17849 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
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Since the existence of /dev/tty is not guaranteed, what happens when an attempt is made to open /dev/tty and there's no controlling terminal?
Will it fail, or open /dev/null instead? Or do something else?
So is checking for NULL in the code below a safe way of checking whether opening... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to provide more than one character to "> /dev/tty" through terminal/keyboard input, I have this:
ok=false
while
do
echo " Enter r1 to reformat "
> /dev/tty
read choice
case $choice in
)
echo " bla bla bla "
;;
done
However, in this way,... (3 Replies)
Hello everybody:
I have a child process which reads a password from /dev/tty, as far as I know file descriptors for the child process can be seen by using lsof, so I want to connect to such device in order to send the password through a pipe, how could I do that? (2 Replies)
hi,
From the below script:
##########################################pwd_auth.sh########################################################################################
#Author: Pandeeswaran Bhoopathy
#Written on:26th Jan 2012 2:00PM
#This script describes the feature of stty and illustrates... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have been trying to capture console logs from the init script.
When the ramfs is mounted, i check if usb is connected , if conncted, i mount it and redirected the console logs like so:
cat & /dev/ttyS1 >> /mnt/logs.txt
I'm getting
/bin/sh : /dev/ttyS1 :permission denied
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07-15-2013
The vendor has to provide some mechanism for determining license usage, but it's extremely limited. 
I would like to gather statistics every 15 minutes, find the maximum concurrent license usage, so we can contract to the vendor for the ideal number of licenses. 
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! --Paul.