Recent content by SamBones

I have some systemd services that I set up to run as a non-root user. I can do a 'status' on the services as that user, but I can't stop or start them without being prompted for the 'root' password. Is there any way to set this up? In my .service definition files I do have the following...

We use a third party app that I'm not sure I can identify right now. We host it internally. It's written in Java and hosted on Tomcat on Windows Servers. Just a couple weeks ago, some of our users started experiencing a problem where they could log in ok, but their data wasn't being displayed...

In other words, "Don't fix the broken foundation, go ahead and build the house". It will only get worse.

The way you say "a good handle on the basics of programming" makes me thing you really don't. That's just too vague. What I mean by that, what specific language(s) have you become competent in? You can't get a job as a programmer if you list "basics of programming" in your resume or CV. If...

I think you'd need to give a lot more detail than that. What are you trying to control access to/from? Please describe your situation and what you want to accomplish.

Hi Donald, Tek-Tips has a Forum specifically for Sybase. They may be able to give you some very detailed and helpful recommendations for this problem. https://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=187

Hi Donald, A little more information would be helpful. Which Linux are you running? What application or database are you running? What was being run when this error occurred. If this is a Sybase database server, this link should help...

For the she-bang line of a script (#!), the file listed, in this case "/usr/bin/perl" is the perl executable. It must be there for the script to work. If your perl executable is in a different location, that line must still point to it. If you do have 'perl' on your machine, type 'which perl'...

This looks to be an MFCOBOL manual... https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/rm-cobol/1214/RMC-UG.pdf Are you sure the duplicate record was written to the file? If not, then the "02" is probably an error code. If the record was written to the file, then the "02" is probably a "duplicate...

Can"?!? Again, yes you can. Should you? Probably not. GnuCOBOL translates the COBOL source to C, then runs it through the Gnu C compiler. I believe the only "mainframe" that the Gnu C compiler can target is an IBM 390 running Linux. I don't think it can natively target a non-Linux OS except...

Possible? Yes. A good idea? No. If you've ever looked at the generated C code, it's not tight and concise code. It's generated code that has a lot of added bloat to allow it to mimic how a running COBOL program acts. It also was never intended to be used as a language converter, except to get...

I'm triggered by my alarm clock every morning. It sets the tone for the entire day. [bigsmile]

This is a political question, not a technical question. [bigsmile] I like feherke's solution, but IPGuru is right on the money too. If you do come up with a solution to kill a rogue process, then you should also get buy in from both your management, AND the vendor so you don't invalidate your...

Yeah, when I have a quick and dirty project, most of the time I'll write it in C. But you need to keep in mind that C is basically just a high level assembler. In fact its earliest implementations first started by translating the C source to assembly language code. So, it's awesome for smaller...

Yes, I'm a C programmer with over 35 years experience. I don't use it often, but I do use it when the use case is right. Keep in mind that if you are using "some C++ features", then you aren't writing C. You are writing C if it will compile cleanly in a C compiler. There's nothing wrong with...