Recent content by OhNoNotAgain

Hello all, I have developed some code on a SUN Solaris 9 Sparc box, I want to produce a binary from this code that will also execute on Solaris 7 & 8 boxes and on both 32 and 64 bit machines. I am using gcc to compile the code, can I have some recommendations on the best compile options to use...

Thanks all for the replies ... I cannot use 'passwd -l username' as that sets the account to *LK* or locked. We are using the latest version of OpenSSH (v3.7.1p2) which does not allow access to locked accounts, hence the required change from *LK* to NP. I have done quite a bit of research and...

Hello all, I need to set a user id in the /etc/shadow file to be NP, e.g. myuser:NP::::::: I have to do this via a shell script and NOT by editing the /etc/shadow file. Any ideas how it can be done via the command line ? Thanks

Hello all, I have developed a C program that needs to run on a HP-UX and Sun Solaris. Depending on the machine I set certain variable contents. To do this I use ifdef to check the machine type, on Sun it works a treat, on HP no joy. This is what I have... #ifdef hpux char cBox[] = "I...

Hello All, I have to write a C program that will work on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux boxes. The program will simply list files in a given directory that start with the word install_ and will display the found files in a menu for the user to select. So far I have only done some testing on...

All, Newish to C. On a UNIX box I want to execute an ls command and capture the files in an array of filenames. Can someone please recommend a method and/or a good site for this type of function for Unix. Thanks