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I am using Terminal on an OSX system to access and edit crontab files on a 'headless' Solaris 11 server. Crontab -e on OSX invokes vi as the editor, which is fine, but I am getting unexpected...

@junior_helper: thank you, but I read that. Perhaps I should have noted that the rsync scripts are a "pull" from the backup server. The txt file referenced above works if your script is a "push"....

Hi Folks,
I'm using rsync on Solaris 10 to backup a web server and need to exclude the cache and tmp directories. The man pages and google on rsync --exclude are ambiguous but I have...

Scrutinizer: Thank you. This was the problem on the Solaris machine. I had been looking too hard at the Mac as the cause. Post the changes made to permissions as you suggest, ssh is playing nicely...

I could use a fresh pair of eyes to look at this, because it has me baffled. I am attempting to setup pasword-less ssh keys (rsa) between 2 systems. As the user (admin on both systems), I have...

try $editor=(your choice of editor)
$export editor
then...
try crontab -e (your username)

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I do not think I can help further with this. I have searched this forum and googled your question, but I am not experienced enough to offer advise.
I am, however, wondering why you are using rsync,...

@Peasant Thanks for your reply. As an FYI, I have put the above question to Oracle and am waiting for a reply. This is a new x86 machine with no prior O/S installed. What makes this more of a mystery...

Your question is a little confusing. Do you want to delete only the files that no longer exist in the source directory ?

I'm trying to figure out what circumstances would cause an Open Solaris 11.2 host to switch itself from a static to a DHCP ip address upon reboot. This has only happened once but is a cause for some...