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Hi, Observe this output I get from a command ran from my perl script, which I OPEN as a filehande: eg. open (FILEH, "unix_command_to_generate_output |") 1016 000b 0.2 10000000C9311154 magellan.c1 1016 000b 0.2 10000000C931106D magellan.c2 1017 000c 0.2...

Hi, I was told to switch on process accounting. Problem is each night at 0230, the runacct in the adm crontab appears to truncate it. This is annoying as now the last command will only report information from the same day. We need to keep a months worth really. Any ideas, don't want to have to...

We want to use init.d(4) scripts to start up applications and move away from manually starting them up after boot-time. The applications use an Oracle database that reside on a different server (A dedicated database server) Can anyone suggest a suitable method of checking the relevant database...

Hi, We have some users who need to copy files from one server to another, they are currently using an FTP solution to do this (HummingBird Exceed) because it is essential that the files get copied in ASCII mode. But the NT guys here tell me that the files would be copied in ASCII mode anyweay...

Hi, I am using rsync through ssh to copy various directories and files to a DR server. Consider some of the script that is running; done for HOST in ${TARGET_LIST} do /usr/local/bin/rsync -e ssh -avz --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync --blocking-io --delete...

I need to get a line count of two scripts and the calculate the differnce in lines, so I can tail the latest amount. I have imagined it to be something like below, but cant get the total to work!! count1='cat /u01/app/oracle/admin/ARERDK/bdump/alert_RDK.log|wc -l' count2='cat...

Hi I have a V880, running solaris 8. There is a problem where if a file is over about 2.5 Mb, and FTPd onto this machine, the file transfer completes okay, but the in.ftpd doesn't appear to send a Transfer Complete message back to the client. This means that the client process just sits there...

THIS IS ALSO POSTED IN THE SECURITY & HACKERS FORUM BUT HAD NO RESPONSE> Hi, Senior management wish to remove root access for everyone, including the sys admin team of which I am a member. We have,already, in recent weeks removed super-user access for the DBAs and using sudo has allowed us to...

Hi, Senior management wish to remove root access for everyone, including the sys admin team of which I am a member. We have,already, in recent weeks removed super-user access for the DBAs and using sudo has allowed us to do the same for the operators. The problem we are having is trying to...

I have a date in the format YYMMDD, I wish to know such things as what day of the week is it, or what is it in Julian format, are you aware of any date conversion routines out there, or do I have to start from scratch ?

Here is my problem. I create a .lst file containing the following: -rw-rw-r-- 1 dvpears prism 19040 Sep 25 10:56 dax_e_ic_20030828.csv -rw-rw-r-- 1 dvpears prism 19042 Sep 25 10:56 dax_e_ic_20030829.csv -rw-rw-r-- 1 dvpears prism 71 Sep 25 10:56...

Hi, I am building a system with Solaris 9 / Sparc. During the hardening process I removed the MD5 package, which it transpires I need, but forgot which one it is, I need to get another copy of this package and install. Does anyone know what the package is called and where I can get a...

I am building an FTP bastion host that will reside within our DMZ. It's a V120. I have jumpstarted it with the End User (SUNWCuser). Experience has taught me that installing just the core cluster makes it difficult to continue with the build, for example we need to FLashArchive for recovery and...

Hi, I've posted this question here as I am a UNIX SA and hope that there will be many other UNIX SAs on here that will understand my problem, and forgive me for possibly posting a slightly off-topic query. Basically, I've been searching the Web looking for a simple Excel spreadsheet or...

What are peoples' views on the convetion used when naming hosts in your enterprise? I like to use peoples names like Kylie, Deniro etc. but some boring people believe it is better to include the platform etc. e.g ABCUNIX22 If the company was called ABC and the machine was the 22nd UNIX machine...