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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Can anyone offer any advice on how to modify the script below to work on a new system we have, that has no graphics capability? We admin the system through a serial RAS device. I've tried running the below script through the RAS and through an ssh -X session. It failed with something like "GTK... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I'm trying to write a script to gather and send data and it works just fine at the bash command line, but when executing from CRON, it does not run properly.
My scripting skills are pretty limited and there's probably a better way, but as I said it works at the command line, but... (12 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Howdy,
I am nearly tearing my hair out as Cron isn't running a script that should work.
I am interning for a company. Their rsyslog keeps track of traffic that gets past a firewall. It creates two files called pix.log and pix2.log. Every time something happens with the firewall, it adds to... (11 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everybody
Im learning bash scrpting language and im making a script that read a file line by line and it does a comparison if in a line start with a letter or number and it will delete every ones that start with a letter. But im getting some errors
First of all, this is the script's... (5 Replies)
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5. OS X (Apple)
Hello,
I installed gftp using darwinports on Snow Leopard. Install appeared to go fine with no errors. When trying to launch gftp by starting X11, then typing /opt/local/bin/gftp in the terminal, nothing happens until about 30 minutes later when only a partial window appears.
I get the... (0 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am a novice Linux/Perl user and am struggling to overcome what I am sure is a simple problem.
I am using a perl program to create a shell script daily containing between 10 and 30 "at -f" commands for the same day. Then I change the file attributes to allow the file to be executed. When... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a simple script that checks for certain printers and records them to a file.
When I run the script manually at the command prompt, it works perfect, but when I run the script via cron, nothing happens. No errors reported, and no records are written out. I'm using Solaris 10. Below is the... (4 Replies)
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8. HP-UX
Hi,
I do have three scripts. Whcih inserts records into a table using sqlldr, creating some reprot files etc. The first script will call the second and then the second will call the third. When I run my first script from the shell prompt, all my operation are completed successfully. If I do... (23 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a script in a directory -say users/me/test/
It looks like this:
# "bkup" - copies specified files to the user's ~/Backup
# directory after checking for name conflicts.
a=$(date +%T)
cp $1 ~/test/Backup/$1.$a
It copies file.txt from current directory and timestamps the name of it of... (4 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
On the following script that I get an error when I try to execute as root:
#./mv_log.sh
bash: /root/util/mv_log.sh: Permission denied
#!/usr/bin
datetag=`date --date='1 day ago' +"%b%d%Y"`
logname=`find /opt/bea/wlserver6.1/config/*/logs/ -iname 'access.log0*' -mtime -1 -print`
mv... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: darthur
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