1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear All , Kindly I have some questions , I need hints or answers please . I have sparc4 , sun solaries 7 , mail server . i have about 5000 users , with no login shell , or home directories for the users . they only have mail boxes in /var/mail dir . now , I do not have any type of... (6 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi , I have one question, suppose i am a normal user and when i use 'w' command , it shows who is logged on and what they are doing . Now i want to stop others users to know what i am doing accept the root ? can i do this ? thanks (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

My satellite receiver is equipped with busybox, so a small linux version. That is why I can not use certain commands like #tomorrow in date commands or #date -d "+1 day" and thus I have to use: day1=$ I want to download every day 6 files from the internet but the filenames consist of the date... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I wonder how to stop further loop iterations when conditions gets false e.g. This file.txt contains the following structure : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 How to stop iteration when if statement gets false ? for n in `cat file.txt` do if (( n<=5 )) (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi First of all I tried lot of forums to create my first expect script. But I am totally stumped at the last step. I am no Linux Admin or ever trained in Linux. I just tried to create the script logically History : I need to to change my password across lot of servers in Linux over ssh ... (4 Replies)

6. Red Hat

Dear Linux Experts, On my windows 7 desktop with the help of Vmware workstation (Version 7.1), created virtual machine and installed Centos 5.7 successfully using ISO image. Query : Is this possible to upgrade the Centos 5.7 using Centos 5.8 ISO image to Centos version 5.8?.. if yes kindly... (2 Replies)