It sounds like you're on the right path. I'd suggest just breaking it down. First, find out who $USER is on the box that seems not to work correctly:
Code:
echo $USER
Let's say the response is 'bob'. Next, rather than using $USER, instead grep for 'bob':
Code:
> last | grep bob
bob console Mon Feb 23 20:11 - 20:21 (00:10)
bob ttyv0 Mon Feb 23 19:20 - shutdown (00:00)
bob ttyv0 Mon Feb 23 17:28 - 19:18 (01:50)
Of course, you might not get anything, so you might want to check "last" manually and see if bob's on the list. If not, and you're logged in as bob, last would seem to be broken in some way. If so, grep is broken, which seems pretty unlikely. If grepping for bob works, but grepping for $USER doesn't, then the use of env variables is failing. Try one of these:
rmoncello, without grep works fine too. I think it turned out to be a server issue because all the commands worked on the other servers. Thanks for the reply.
In any non-root account, whenever I enter mail, it gives me:
/var/spool/mail/root: Permission deniedI am not logged in as root, why is mail accessing root's mailbox ?
I am unable to enter the currently logged in user's mailbox.
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Hello,
I need to write one script which should search particular pattern like ABCD in log file name hello.txt only in current date logs.
in current directory i have so many past date logs but grep should be applied on current date logs.
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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
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Hey guys
I need a script that reads a login name and verifies if that user is currently logged in
i have found few commands like "who" and "users"
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Hello,
Neither ‘Grep -r' nor ‘grep -R' is working in my environment. (Searching for a text pattern in the files)
Any suggestions... Using SunOS 5.9
Thanks,
Trinanjan. (1 Reply)
When I typed in ps -a I get this:
PID TTY TIME CMD
31799 pts/3 00:00:00 vim
31866 pts/3 00:00:00 vim
And to check who is currently logged in, I type who
Felix Whoals
Tada Whoals
Lala Whoals
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I have crated a file xx wth env redirected into it 5 times n couldnot proceed further
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Hey guys,
I would like to find all files which contain "client1.dat". I would like to search from the current directory and all subs and print out all the files that have this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks much. (10 Replies)
02-27-2009
