I have created symbolic links to several frequently used commands, for example:
"lt" is a link to "ls -ltrgo|tail". What can I do to make these links available system-wide, or at least in the directories my coworkers are in most of the time? I have copied the link to several directories, and... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to shell scripting and I was trying to write a script that would force a system wide password change except for admins. I am having some trouble and any help that someone could give me would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to do it by using the UID as the marker for anyone... (6 Replies)
hello All,
I need to invoke by perl script some program/command and monitor it for 5
minutes . In case it still running for more then 5 min I need to send a signal which will stop it.
I implemeted this as shown below by using eval & alarm
and I'd like to know if there is a better way to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to look for a config file (ldap.conf) and pick the latest modified file.
`locate` tells me there are many ldap.conf's, some in /etc, /usr, /home, etc.
Is there some way I can sort them by last modified time via bash?
I was thinking maybe I could pipe the output of `locate` to `ls... (4 Replies)
Dear Fellows;
As being new to linux, i have tried to synamically load a custom library which overrides some system calls like conncet(), socket() etc.... for custom purposes.
It works well, if declaring the environment path LD_PRELOAD and execution of the application to be override... (0 Replies)
We need to have many of our users all send encrypted files to a single FTP server. The problem, if I understand how encryption/decryption works (which I don't), is that each user would normally have their own private and public key. The other end needs to be able to decrypt the file(s) using a... (6 Replies)
As we are facing issue with this server connection. The error is:
The system function gethostbyname() failed to find the client's host name.
how can i check if the server "server1" is able to resolve the client hostname (hosts / dns)?
i can ping the client from server.
any... (1 Reply)
When looking for wherever a program or a filename appears in the system, a short scrip is "findinner" which another script calls with a long parameter list consisting of path names ending with ".sh" or ".menu". "findinner" looks like this:
# If not .savenn file, show name and result of grep.
#... (4 Replies)