1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi , i added ls -F to .profile. and i need to do ./.profile for the effect to take effect BUT i didnt and YET the next day when i came to work and log in, the changes took effect. i am on aix. please explain.. thanks (4 Replies)

2. Programming

Hi. I have a C program that is using the **environ pointer and I am trying to set up aliases for a system("/bin/ksh") call. This works for other environment variables but not for the aliases. Does anyone know if this can be done? Thanks ahead of time. (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I want to call my users .profile in cron? I understand that i have to do it explicitly in crontab entry. How can we do it ? How can i write a simple script calling it? Thanks & Regards Abhijeet (15 Replies)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, Ho do I differentiate system call from library call? for example if I am using chmod , how do I find out if it is a system call or library call? Thanks Muru (2 Replies)

5. Infrastructure Monitoring

Hello, I have a problem with package and name space. require "/Mehran/DSGateEngineLib/general.pl"; use strict; sub System_Status_Main_Service_Status_Intrusion_Prevention { my %idpstatus; my @result; &General_ReadHash("/var/dsg/idp/settings",\%idpstatus); #print... (4 Replies)

6. Infrastructure Monitoring

Hello I really wonder what's trap in etc/profile and in each user .profile. I try to google for it but I think I have no luck. Mostly hit is SNMP traps which I think it is not the same thing. I want to know ... 1. What's a "trap 2 3" means and are there any other value I can set... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Gurus Can anyone please let me know how to call .profle file in perl script When I am calling the .profile file its giving error Shall I create unix script which has .profile command and call perl script internally (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, I have a doubt that can we call under whatever scripts we mention in crontab -e into .profile . Because every weekend my server is going to restart so, my doubt whether crontab -e will automatically run my scripts or manually we have to save the crontab -e again? If that crontab... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I login to Linux and Solaris server using my personal user account "ms1104" . I have several aliases set in my profile. Later i need to switch to another user account i.e. "wlsuser" and below is the command i use sudo -u wlsuser -s -H i do not have authority to modify the... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have this line of code on my script #!/bin/sh #enable the environment variable thru profile . .profile when i run the script it was unable to find the .profile sh ChgPwd.sh ChgPwd.sh: line 4: .: .profile: file not found the file .profile exists ls -altr .profile... (2 Replies)