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Okay, so let's say we have a string like:

20110105_193345

This represents:

January 5th, 2011 = 20110105

24-hour style time 19:33:45 = 193345

Okay, so we have our time. It's January...

Echo your env in your script and have it run from cron.

So put this at the beginning of your script

env > /tmp/env

Have that run from cron, and then post the results. This is a simple way...

Can you post the exact error messages when you shut down?

Does the command errpt return anything relevent?

I would suggest setting up sudo for whoami. If you want to make it completely transparent set up sudo, so the user doesn't need to type in a password and then create an alias that does 'sudo whoami'.

Once you type set -o vi, you should hold the 'ESC' key and then tap the 'k' key. There is no way to enable the arrow key for history commands. Once you get used to it, however, it becomeslike second...

IBM views the HMC as an appliance and not a computer.. you will find it very hard to get them to be any sort of lienient.

Okay, so in AIX, there are various subroutines that is built in to the OS. The subroutine is I want to use is passwdpolicy(). So I want to construct a C program that will be able to pass credentials...

Okay, let me sketch the problem.

I did have a ubuntu / Windows XP dual boot scenario that ran grub as my boot loader. I decided I wanted to try out solaris, so I popped in the opensolaris CD and...

It probably will not work.

When I write scripts to work on AIX and Linux, I have to write it for AIX - test it - then rewrite it so it works on Linux.

I'm not smart enough to just write...

So star out and create the script.

Inside the script echo your questions and then read the answer to assign it to a variable. Ex:

echo "What is the ip address?"
read ipaddress

What is the...

/logs/syslog/messages

There are also other log files under /logs/syslog, like the authlog etc.

At the top of your script put this in:

set -x



This will help you debug.

Already looked into this.

Short answer: no.

Might as well read up on AIX 6, as AIX 5.3 is near its end :).

How do I strip every character from a variable into a bunch of other variables:

For example

echo "Enter the text:"
read text


If I enter

Hello World!

I would like to awk the answer...

I'm looking for a way to mirror one user to another.

For example:

If I have the user ABC and I want to mirror his:

-Primary group
-Any other groups ABC belongs to
-UID
-Home directory
...

I would like to set my minimum password length to on Linux and AIX.

However, doing this normally would only make it so newly added users will be affected by this. I would like for when I make this...

What is this homework?

Just put echo $hostname in .profile

This works!!!

Can you explain the sed part please?

Just a push for now, if I can't figure it out, I'll need a little more help. :o

This idea for a shellscript I have, is just beyond my reach of knowledge.

Basically I have a file that contains a list like so:

axis
heater
water
yast

The file is called mqm.list.

What...

Everytime I do

Auditctl -l

I get

linux101:/etc # auditctl -l
No rules
File system watches not supported

Here is my audit.rules

linux101:/etc # cat audit.rules
# This file...

Has anyone used, or set up auditd?

I want to use it to audit critical system files.

Will this be hard, how would I start setting this up?


:eek:

tmpvar="/tmp/{$USER}uid.tmp

It's where the file location is, where the user owns which files etc.