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1. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support
Can someone help me with a shell script that will send an email to a set of email ids when a user id is created or deleted on AIX system.
Also, if the script can let the admin know when a particular user id's password will expire. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ggayathri
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone help me with a shell script that will send an email to a set of email ids when a user id is created or deleted on AIX system.
Also, if the script can let the admin know when a particular user id's password will expire. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ggayathri
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Everyone,
There are certain files under a folder 'ABC' and the entries for these files are there in another file(fname) under a different folder 'XYZ'. I want to compare the folder contents(ABC) with
the file(fname) contents and delete the mismatching / non-existing ones from the file,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: swasid
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I looked into the sticky bit, but I think, if possible, that I would prefer to have the file recreate itself after deletion. The file is several directories deep, and from time to time the top level directory will be trashed. I need the file to recreate after this. Is it possible to perhaps... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: glev2005
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to write a simple shell script to watch a file in a directory and copy immedietly any files in that directory to another oldfiles directory once and later in the evening delete the file from the original directory.
File A arrives in dir1 at 8.00AM
Watch the file in dir1 and copy the file... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cravie
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to poll a particular file on a Windows shared drive using shell script and copy it to a Unix directory if present.
Step wise execution:
1) Poll/watch for a file in the following location on Windows share:
(SRC_DIR=\\mum\dharmesh\research\ST_DXR_20080821 to DXR.xls)
2) If present,... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: dharam_v
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I got help in another forum but now I need further help so I figured I'd ask here. I had to write a script to delete certain filenames of certain size. I got this far..
find . -size 110c -name "*testing*" -print | xargs -n 1 rm -i
It finds the correct files, but the prompts to delete are all... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: NycUnxer
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am using unix via telnet ssh and i have a problem
I was testing the server.
I made a directory.
Transfered a file from an ftp to it.
Opened the file with the vi text editor
--This where my problem came.....
I tried deleting the file using rm somefile.htm
when is typed ls i noticed that... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shdwsclan
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
OS: Solaris 8
I deleted a large file (around 13 Gigs) from my system.
But the output of df -k remains the same. The
capacity % is constant. However one strange thing
is happening- My available space is decreasing, my used
space in increasing (The opposite should happen).
This is happening... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: run_time_error
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi there guys. I'm quite new in using unix and just recently experienced missing file problem. Someone accidentally or likely intentionally deleted one specific folders that contains important file. Now my question is, can any other user aside from root can do such action? Please help. ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rhomel101
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