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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I'm curious to know how do I add an empty log file (test1.log) to an existing text file to monitor all the changes made to a.txt.
Is this expression
export PATH=$PATH:/home/test1.log
right to be added to the text file a.txt? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: TestKing
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2. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions
This may not be the right place, since it is not exactly unix or linux, but it does involve cygwin. I have two cygwin installations. When I start a mintty terminal, I need to toggle a windows path variable to make sure that the correct cygwin dll gets loaded.
I need to add
C:\cygwin\bin
to the... (3 Replies)
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3. Red Hat
Hi,
Im trying to run script A which requires path /sbin.
I have a crontab entry to run script A every 10 minutes.
Script A is executed fine by cron, but because script A requires /sbin in its path it fails to run.
My situation is script A get overwritten from time to time so I can't modify... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: wilsonee
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
We are on AIX 6.1 TL6
I am an Admin for a Content Management application that is hosted on an AIX machine and i am supposed to come up with a cronjob that runs every monday at 03:00 am.
The current schedule of that cron job is :
3 * * 1,3,5 /path/of/script.sh
But i do not know... (5 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to add path for root.
In /etc directory there is no .bash_profile file
it has only profile file
can any one say how to add path for root user ?
is it possible to add path in profile file for root user. (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: elango963
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
Ref: "build crontab from a text file" in same forum. (I am not allowed to post URL's in the first post)
We are reorganizing our UNIX Crontab file by first making changes in a word pad text file. The intent is to then copy it back to Crontab. Will this work? Copy and Paste does not... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: nivedhitha
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Folks,
I want to append a path in user's PATH variable which should be available in current session.
Background
Numerous persons will run a utility.
Aim is to add the absolute path of the utility the first time it runs so that next runs have the PATH in env & users can directly run... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: vibhor_agarwali
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi:
I have a requirement as below:
I have some standard Unix commands modified and kept them in a directory say /usr/clsh/bin. For example I have a script named "ls" kept here which is modified version of "ls" (say it always gives long listing i.e. ls -l).
When any user logs on and types... (2 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Guys,
Our user crontab files are located at /var/spool/cron/crontabs.
I have to make some modifications to it.
I have all the crontab entries in a file called 'crontab.actual'. I made changes to this file and now I want to reload these changes from the crontab.actual file to my crontab... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: vandi
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi All,
here the problem: I'm not able to specify a PATH inside the crontab file.
The only syntax it accepts is the usual "* * * * * file"
I'm not able to add PATH, or HOME, or MAILTO, or anything else.
when I try to save the crontab, I have the error:
"crontab: error on previous line;... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: fuliggians
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