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I want to spawn n child processes but have two different classes..with the foremost one forking/spawning the child process and the latter performing a function w/ the spawned processes.

I can do...

I'm having the most frustrating problem in quite sometime I can't connect to a remote host computer.

I can connect through my LAN computer downstairs
I can also connect with that computer...

They aren't homework questions per se, they're questions given in preparation for a test; so they aren't graded, but I guess ultimately you're the moderator and its your word against mine.

I'm having trouble with the following commands

i. count the number of lines which end in a 4 letter word
grep '[a-z-A-Z]{4\}$' bfile <<seems to print out everything

abc abc abcd
joe joe john...

if i were offline i'd expect to be notified through email..I guess i'd want to monitor the file even when im offline if that's possible?
perhaps i could schedule an at job to run the script every so...

thanks a lot for the script but what if I'm offline and someone else modifies the script..how would i get an alert then?
thanks a million

I would like to alert myself when a file has been modified using a script but im not sure where to begin the only command i can think to use is the touch command

how would i go about writing a script to alert myself when a file has been modified?

thanks guys, it turns out it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be
I just needed to set the s-bit on my script
I wasn't using setid in it
it turned out fine
now I can go watch heroes...

this is a description of the assignment, your responses have led me to believe he's given us something impossible to do. I'll ask him to clarify this in an email but I wanted to be sure I know...

I'm writing this command/script to allow students to vi a private file of mine
in a private directory of mine. chmod 700 dir chmod 660 file

however since i own the directory and file; the script...

Didn't want to clog the other boards lol but just came through to say whats up and I'm new here and you guys have already helped me out. Great supplement to textbooks :)