1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can it be done? If so, how? I would like a script to contain the exit command, and log me off at script completion. thanks (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, i have sco openserver 5.0.6 but have a problem with shutdown or reboot commands. The string I use is "shutdown -g0 -y" but the system just hangs on "The sytem is down" . I used to get a "Safe to turn of" but now nothing. Same with "reboot" the sytem just freezes. Any suggestions? (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, I want to control my server from shutting down and rebooting. It will ask for some question before the process, ex: who are you? what is the reason for shutting down? ... I think I can overide that binary of shutdown/reboot command, but it is confused. We have many way to... (5 Replies)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, How can I call my shell script, when I execute 'exit' command? For eg. I am logging out the root login by 'exit' command. My script 'colinfo' shold execute before logging out. I don't want to use any wrapper script. (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, please could someone advise the best command to shutdown and then for it to reboot back online again. Note: I shall be doing this from a telent session. regards venhart (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

PROBLEM: I need to ssh into multiple remote machines, send a shutdown command and exit. The remote servers will then run their own scripts to gracefully shutdown their applications before shutting down. ONE: This is to be achieved without using public key authentication; this is being avoided... (2 Replies)

7. 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)

8. Linux

Hi, I'm using 2.6.11 kernel on ARM 9. Below are the messages I get issuing different commands. When I give "reboot" I get run level 6 initiated and get the following messages. I have nothing to complaint about it. All the scripts in rc6.d are executed. The system is going down for reboot... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a shell script inside which i am executing another shell script. In the inner script im executing a command. i want the status of that command in the outer script to perform some validations. How to get its status please help!!1 Im using ksh. (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)