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I recently was handed responsibility for a script which has array references that are new to me and I could use some help understanding them.

Parts of the config file and script are included. ...

I am having trouble understanding the difference between a passthrough device and a named device and when you would use one or the other to access equipment.

As an example, we have a tape library...

I didn't realize that the OS or bash version could cause such an issue.
Anyhow the OS is
# uname -a
Linux sport 2.6.11.4-21.17-default #1 Fri Apr 6 08:42:34 UTC 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
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I have a server that receives backup files from several servers. Each server has its own directory to scp their files into, some of the files are received as .tar files and need to be compressed...

I have several servers, A, B, & C that run various routines then scp the results to server X. On X I then have to do some data manipulation with the received files before sending the files on to...

Thanks KevinADC
That fixed the problem.
thumper

I've got the following code

sub mail_report {
$Mailer = '/usr/sbin/sendmail joe@somewhere.net';
open MAIL,"|$Mailer";
print MAIL "Subject: $X connection attempt \n";
open...

Assuming I have the following entry in my httpd.conf file

<Directory /usr/local/www/apache22/data>
AddHandler python-program .py
PythonHandler form.py
PythonDebug On
</Directory>
am I...

Thanks
thumper

I am trying to locate a password database for use at work. I have looked at several open source packages but all that I have found are for a single user and we need to allow multiple user access...

Anyone know of an automated utility that will fill a designated partition with random data then delete the data?
We have several harddrives that need certain partitions cleaned of sensitive data...

I'm trying to establish a jail on a FBSD 6.1 system and have a couple of questions on bringing up the daemon.
Under the jail man page there are two user flags that I am unclear on,

-u...

Sorry, forgot that info.

troll[7]# uname -a
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4

When using dump, a .snap directory is created in the partition being dumped.
I have searched for the reason this directory is created but haven't found any information on its purpose.

I have...

Recently we brought up a Spectralogic 2K Tape Library that had been out of service for about 3 years to replace a DDS-4 tape drive unit as our main backup device.
Everything seemed to go fine but...

I have a piece of equipment, a Baytech RPC-3, that I need to communicate with through the com port.
I normally use this equipment at home and am able to connect to it without problems using FC5 and...

Thanks reborg. Escaping the \ worked.

I have the following perl code that I use to run backups on remote machines. No problems here, the code works without problems
system "ssh", $SHORT_NAME, "cd /;", "sudo", "tar", "cvf", "-",...

I have been trying to work out the syntax to use prune but so far havent been successful.
What I am trying to accomplish is to list all files with -mtime -3 except for certain directories, (/dev,...

In a bash script I am writing I am having a problem excluding selected directories from tar.
From the machine $SERVER I issue the command
#start netcat on storage server
gnetcat -l -vv -p 2011...

blowtorch Thanks. That solved the problem. I knew that there had to be a more elegant solution than what I was using. Tested the code against about 30 date/interval settings and it works as...

I am working on a bash script to backup selected servers and am trying to come up with a simpler solution to this problem:

Each server to be backed up has a config file that is read by the script,...

The man pages for useradd show the -k flag as a option, problem is I don't know what the description means. Could someone explain what "an alternative skel directory" is?
Is skel an acronym?...

Thanks Blowtorch. I've got a question on the command you show. Why is the tar -xf - needed? Since I dont want to untar the file on the server as it is going to be written to a tape should the...

Our group has recently inherited 15 servers that have not been maintained for over a year.
My first action is to backup the units however there is not enough disk space on most of them to run tar. ...