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I am using an emulator to update scripts using vi on a unix server but it is very time consuming. I am not great with vi but I seem to be having more problems when I am not on the linux/unix machine directly. As the vi commands I issue seem to do different things so I have to keep exiting and...

Hello someone asked me this question. They want the data to be sent in a table in the produced email. Has anyone any ideas? thanks a lot The code below produces the email below that. Any ideas how to improve the code so that it is formatted more better? It goes through each item on each row...

For a piece of software I am testing I need jdk1.4.1. I have tried to use jdk1.4.1_01 and it does not work. I have tried sun's sight but I cannot see it there. Does anyone know where to get it. thanks a lot

In etc/cron.d there is no cron.allow. Only the following files: FIFO, at.deny, cron.deny, logchecker, queuedefs. I am not listed in cron.deny.

thanks a lot for all your help. I ran crontab -l as root from / and got a listing of the lines in the root crontab file. I ran crontab -l as myuser from / and got crontab: can't open your crontab file What I had done before was created a file with a list of jobs in it and then used: crontab...

Yes the afore mentioned directory is where the root crontab file is. When I logged in as myself (i.e. not root) and do crontab -l in this directory I get: crontab: can't open your crontab file I added the lines I need into root because I needed to have my reports working. However, now I am...

I cannot see my crontab file in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs but I think it is still there if that makes sense because I am getting results from it. How do I make it appear again??? thanks, G

Sorry could not do a keyword search as it seems to be down at the minute. I am having more problems with the crontab jobs not running. I have run the script when logged on as root and it works but it does not run when as a crontab job. I thought that the environment the crontab jobs run under...

Bourne Shell. This problem has been fixed now thanx to all your helpful advice but alas there are more issues now! Anyway this is the way to learn..... I have a Kawasaki zxr 400 and a BSA C10 what do u have Mike. If your American I know some of the Japenese bikes have different names there I am...

Thanks to ur help I have managed to limit it down to a problem with the while loop. i.e. if I remove the while loop and just run what is in the loop there is no error. I have looked at several sorces and the way that the while loop is structured in unix script varies. I am not sure which way is...

I am working on a unix script but when I run it I get the error: 'end of file' unexpected There are no blank lines after the last line of text. Can you please tell me how to remove this 'end of file' thank you. The last line simply says 'exit'. thank you a lot for your time

I am trying to setup an anomoyous ftp server. When I am in /usr/ftp I tried to execute the command: chroot /usr/ftp I am logged on as root but I get the following message: chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory. There is /bin/bash and I have also got /usr/ftp/bin/bash If...

I am running several scripts through a crontab file. There were originally only two scripts now there are three. The third script (new script) is not running at all (but it runs alright if I run it manually from the command line). The other script that runs every two days is now sending out two...

I am using Windows 2000 Professional on a company machine. I did not install it. I am unable to share my desktop/application as this option is greyed out in Net Meeting. Also when I try to start Net Meeting I am told 'Net Meeting could not start. Please, restart your machine and try again'...

thanks a lot for all your help. My IP is 143.47.76.181. My subnet mask is 255.255.252.0. I was told that the reason for the .252 was because of the x.x.76.x format of the ip address. How do I work out then what the network and broadcast is? Will Linux be able to work this out for itself or do I...