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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I was looking into creating a script that would be used only to start a Daemon and create a lock file...
F.Y.I. It's for Nagios' NRPE Daemon Plugin...
Anyway when I run the command to start the Daemon (below):
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -d
And... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrm5102
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here is some back ground on the script. The script is to poll an arbitrary number of DB's. To do this I am creating a function that takes the file_path to the DB and the min poll interval as arguments. The function will be called for each DB and then ran in the background. The function I was... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ryandavison
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey all,
Okay, this one is tricky and I'm not sure there is a niec way to do it, or indeed anyway to do it. The main issue revolves around timing out a hung ssh. I am doing this by creating a wrapper script for the ssh with the following requirements.
My requirements are:
Defineable... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: RECrerar
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello. I was wondering if someone can help me out with something. To simplify my life, I have written a tiny script to open an ssh tunnel through another linux host so that I can access the esxi hosts on that network using the client. For this I have to tunnel ports 443, 902, and 903. Here is what... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: numetheus
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I'm reading <advanced bash scripting> and there is a example to kill a background process in a limited time,as shown below:
#! /bin/bash
#set -n
TIMEOUT=$1
count=0
hanging_jobs & {
while ((count < TIMEOUT));do
eval ' && ((count = TIMEOUT))'
((count++))
sleep 1... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: homeboy
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Guys,
can you help me in killing the process which is running in back ground under for loop
I am not able to find the PID using ps -afx|grep <word in command I entered> (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mohan_xunil
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello All,
I need to invoke by perl script some program/command and monitor it for 5
minutes . In case it still running for more then 5 min I need to send a signal which will stop it.
I implemeted this as shown below by using eval & alarm
and I'd like to know if there is a better way to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Alalush
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8. Programming
consider the given prg.
main() {
.....
function1(); /* to write into a file or log */
printf(" ");
.....
}
when the control reaches function1(), it should get executed in the
background.At the same time main's printf(" ") statement should also get executed.i.e... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bankpro
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am having a problem getting the PID of a process I start in the background is a csh.
In tcsh and sh it's simple
$! give it to you
But in csh this just returns
Variable syntax
From the man page it should work but it doesn't????
Any help. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: stilllooking
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all,
Can someone explain to me the advantage between using subshell over a function call in scripts? To me these are the same. Am I wrong to think this? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: larry
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