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I must disagree!

The internet is a great 'reference' tool, but it's hard to beat a good book if you want to orient yourself to a completely new topic. The career of the author and the reputation...

Cheers for that - worked a treat.

*note to self - learn awk properly*

Morning All,

Quite a simple one this, I hope. What I want to do is to re-write the first line of a file before it's sent to print. The line will be blank initially, and I want to insert some...

oopss....

I've been a little stupid on this one.

Thanks for your input Porter and Radoulov. Radoulov - I see what you're getting at there with all the quoting variables. Whilst it might be a...

I suppose at this point I should mention I'm using ksh on AIX

No, I guess it isn't needed.

I just prefer to put it in when using directory paths in variables which I know are going to be used in such a way. That way you either end up with 'DIRECTORY/file',...

Right folks... this is probably something simple that I'm missing as it's early, but can anyone tell me what's going on here:

The Script:

cougar:/usr/hxscripts>vi ~/test.ksh...

The US is *terrible* for holidays, from what I've gathered. Here in the UK I would guess 22 days are the average. I'm on 22 and I get the option to buy 2 more day's holiday, which I always take. ...

AIX 5.2:
AIX unx000a0 2 5 0032728A4C00

Also -
$ file /usr/bin/kill
/usr/bin/kill: executable (RISC System/6000) or object module

so it's not a wrapper script that's doing any sudoing or suchlike...

Perderabo,

Sorry, but I don't think that's it. I did notice it was avoiding the built-in and I had a look at /usr/bin/kill - I should have posted the information but I don't like to bore people...

kah00na - yes, sorry! You're right through; I'd like to know how the script allows users to kill other users.

Here's the output, I'm afraid it's not that:

-rwxrwxr-- 1 kcckr users ...

Hello list,

Have a problem that's highlighting gaps in my knowledge; can you assist?

We have a script that's tacked onto our trading application which allows branch managers etc. to kill off...

As far as I'm aware this is how kernel rootkits operate - see if you can find a kernel module (if this is correct AIX terminology) rootkit for AIX and study that... or are you trying to fill a 'gap...

Fairly simple question, I think. Still trying to get my head around AIX print queues. Most of our problems seem to stem from print queues going down. This generates help-desk calls when users call...

a few pointers;

use the 'file' command to determine what type of file you're dealing with. This doesn't just work for compressed files, this works for all files. It's useful because a file...

Possibly a permissions issue... Some daemons don't like it when files don't have specific permissions (rsh, for example). Try and mount the windows share so it (and all the files within) have...

Morning, All

I've been doing some work on AIX print queues, troubleshooting some underlying issues we've been having. In the process of this I've uncovered some potential gaps in our knowledge. ...

Faint bells are ringing with this 'recovery_type' thing... unfortunately I'm still at a loss! You'll have to forgive me as I'm relatively new to all this. I've had a look around in the qconfig file...

Morning, All.

Does anyone know how to stop qdaemon from emailing users when print jobs fail?

This is causing a problem as the application that we use is mail-aware; users get a prompt onscreen...

Does this happen without me explicitly requesting it. I know that from the shell you can do this by calling <program> thus '<program> < inputfile', is this what you mean? If so, then how is this...

Many thanks, Perderabo, that worked a treat. Can you explain, or preferably point me to a website/free resource where I can read up on why your solution works. I have a few guesses but this whole...

using the command 'time' followed by the script will give you an output. In ksh it's a builtin, which means that it's more accurate and suffers from less overhead. There's also a binary standalong...

This should do the trick...

if [[ `ps -ef | grep -v $$ | grep -c trigger.sh` -ne 1 ]]; then
#do whatever you feel appropriate
fi

I'm getting rather frustrated with an interactive script I'm writing.

The script is divided up, with section for setting variable at the top, then functions (which make up most of the script)...