I have just found out that a project I have developed in ASP (ultradev) needs to be migrated to a unix server and won't be able to support asp. Can anyone point me in the right direction to see what my options are with Unix? I have never worked with or developed for a Unix box before.
Also,... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to sort a flat file which will contain millions of records based on a key/field. For this I want to use unix sort command and before that I want to make sure that unix sort command has any file size limitations. And also please let me know whether I have to change any... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to develop timeout functionality in my code, which is not affected by system's time changes.Unfortunately I dont have CLOCK_MONOTONIC support in my OS.
Are there any alternatives? (3 Replies)
Hi folks,
Any folk has experience on ntop/Nmon
ntop - network top
and its spinoff NMON
Welcome to nmon.net
Nmon
Nmon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
nmon for AIX and Linux Performance Monitoring
IBM Wikis - AIX 5L Wiki - nmon
A free tool to analyze AIX and Linux... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am using rsync to copy files and links from one server to other (backup server).
The problem with rsync is that it is not copying the files and links in the order which i have mentioned.
It is sorting in alphabetical order before it is copying the files and links.
I want a utilty that... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
We have been trying to Install Metamail on our Solaris 10 server but have failed to do so.
We are a bit topo short of time here so are now trying to Explore any Meta Mail alternatives.
What we basically want to do is:
Server will recieve email, Procmail will recieve the email... (0 Replies)
I am looking for an alternative for sudo in linux, where i need not type the password.
OR is there any other version of 'growisofs', which can be executed under sudo??? As currently 'growisofs' refuses to start under sudo...
Thanks in advance (12 Replies)
I have a list of items (control file) that I want to substitute in a text file, and it's BIG.
The file has two items, the original, and the new:
A B
B C
D E
The file has something like 10,000 entries.
So in the oldfile.txt, I'd like to basically make all these expression matched... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I am using SSH to execute unix commands on remote machines. But, SSH will be diabled soon and I am looking for other alternatives to execute remote scripts/commands, without SSH . any suggestions or workarounds with out SSH for remote program executions ?
Thanks in advance. (4 Replies)
Hi is there an alternative other than the find command to get the size of files which are 10 days older ? I already use a script with find command
find . -mtime +10.
However would want to have an alternative script to find the size of files which are over 10 days.
Let me know if you... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
sleep
sleep(1) User Commands sleep(1)NAME
sleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSIS
sleep time
DESCRIPTION
The sleep utility will suspend execution for at least the integral number of seconds specified by the time operand.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
time A non-negative decimal integer specifying the number of seconds for which to suspend execution.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Suspending command execution for a time
To execute a command after a certain amount of time:
example% (sleep 105; command)&
Example 2: Executing a command every so often
example% while true
do
command
sleep 37
done
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sleep: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The execution was successfully suspended for at least time seconds, or a SIGALRM signal was received (see NOTES).
>0 An error has occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO wait(1), alarm(2), sleep(3C), wait(3UCB), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)NOTES
If the sleep utility receives a SIGALRM signal, one of the following actions will be taken:
o Terminate normally with a zero exit status.
o Effectively ignore the signal.
The sleep utility will take the standard action for all other signals.
SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 sleep(1)