1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, everyone. I have installed Red Hat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1 on my computer. I could use a unprivileged user account to run "ifconfig" directly. But when I was using Red Hat, either root or other accounts could run "ifconfig" --- the error messege said: "bash: ifconfig: command not found". I... (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how can i, ordinary, not a privileged user, monitor my part of filesystem ($HOME dir), to see (at least in log) when and which files was created/deleted/moved ? (I heard something abound "sandbox", but i don`t need to restrict applications, i just want to log its actions) p.s. my system is... (0 Replies)

3. HP-UX

I wan to create a user e.g. Tom. whenever a file is created by user Tom or FTP is done using user as Tom, the rights on the file should be 777 (by default). how can I achieve this. Please help. Its very urgent. (1 Reply)

4. Linux

Hi, Is it possible to grant root privileges to an ordinary user? Other than 'sudo', is there some way under Users/Groups configuration? I want ordinary user to be able to mount, umount and use command mt. /Brendan (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have written a BASH shell script that contains a lot of "echo" commands to notify the user about what's going on. The script generates a log file that contains a copy of what is seen in the terminal. The echo statements are generally verbose, and thus extend out for quite a ways on one... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey there... I am looking for a way to take the below contents ( small excerpt) of this file called PTR.csv ptrrecord,0000002e0cc0.homeoffice.anfcorp.com,,10.11.191.62,,,False,62.191.11.10.in-addr.arpa,,302400,default... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Below is a sample out of ls -l which I would like to rearrange or modify by field numbers for example I successfully managed to disect using simple paragraph however for ls -l I can't divide the rows or fields by field number. Successful modification by fields using SED sample: $ sed -e... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi currently I have a list of *.sql files. one of the file, terminal is Prompt Table TERMINAL; CREATE TABLE TERMINAL ( TERMINAL_ID NUMBER(8), EXCEL_TERMINAL_ID NUMBER(8), MERCHANT_ID NUMBER(8), SETTLE_TIME VARCHAR2(4 CHAR) ); COMMENT... (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

the task is grant user1 to kill another (for example user2) process. My steps: by root: usermod -P "Process Management" user1 login user1 user1@server (~) pfexec kill <PID> the result is: ksh: <PID>: not found or user1@server (~) pfexec pkill <PID> the result: nothing happens, still... (0 Replies)

10. AIX

Hi, I need to grant read permission to a normal user on sulog file on AIX 6.1. As root I did acledit sulog and aclget shows "extended permissions" as "enabled" and normal user "splunk" has read permissions. When I try to access sulog as splunk user it won't allow and aclget for splunk user... (6 Replies)