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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a requirement where in i need to write a shell script to set users password to never expire. I know the command which is used to perform the same .. which is chage command.
But, could not figure out how to do the same in shell script.
Could you please help me with the shell... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: suren424
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to switch from local user to root user in a shell script.
I need to make it automated so that it doesn't prompt for the root password.
I heard the su command will do that work but it prompt for the password.
and also can someone tell me whether su command spawns a new shell or... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Little
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3. HP-UX
Hello
I have a shell script that is run as root. Script rins ok until the point where it have to switch to user "mqm" to run other commands. It just hangs at the point of this line in the script
su - mqm -c "dspmq"
I ran the same commands at the terminal and they run fine.
Any thoughts. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mo12
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am looking for a shell script which serves the below purpose.
Please find below the algorithm for the same and any help on this would be highly appreciated.
1)set of strings need to be replaced among set of files(directory may contain different types of files)
2)It should search for... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: Amulya
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Every body,
I would need a shell script program to login as different user and perform some copy commands in the script.
example: Supppose ora_toms is the active user
ora_toms should be able to run a script where user: ftptomsp pass: XXX should login through and run the commands
... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: ujjwal27
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
So I have a script that runs as a non-root user, lets say the username is 'xymon' .
This script needs to log on to a remote system as a non-root user also and call up a bash script that runs another bash script as root.
in short: user xymon on system A needs to run a file as root user and have... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: damang111
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a shell script file which is set to access permission 000. When I login as root (sudo su) and try to run this script, I am getting the Permission denied error. I have read somewhere that root admin user can execute any kind of permission script. Then why this behavior? However, I can... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: royalibrahim
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I have written one shell script for GPRS route add is given below named GPRSRouteSet.sh
URL="www.google.com"
VBURL="10.5.2.211"
echo "Setting route for $URL for GPRS"
URL_Address=`nslookup $URL|grep Address:|grep -v "#"|awk -F " " '{print $2}'|head -1`
echo "Executing ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mnmonu
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Does anybody know how to make a shell script that finds all the times that any user su'ed to root and create a cron job sends that file output via e-mail to one user?
Thanks!:confused: (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jrvilino
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear expert,
Suppose I have an application that comes in rpm format.
Let's call it:
my_downloaded_package.rpm
How can I install it in my particular home directory (since I'm not
a root user). Say the directory where I want to install above rpm package is:
~/.my_desired_location... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: monkfan
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