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HI ALL,     Can some plesae tell how do i get the list of all system accounts that are not being used .How can i tell if the account is not being used. 2.How can i disable the account . ...
The unix admin is gone.  I have a user who locked a account out that we need for a migration.  I have the root pw to log in as root.  I am barely above noivce level unix admin. How do I ena...
Hi, I am trying to understand the difference of a process and thread in unix and windows.. Any clarificatin or website/url would help... thanks
Hi, I need to set-up auditing on all our AIX servers and I want to edit all users with selected classes. how do I set it on the /etc/security/audit/config? Will this work? (example) us...
How to send a file as an attachment to the mailx command.  I dont want to redirect the contents of the file.
Hi, In a Connect:Direct data transfer between a UNIX and Windows systems, a character conversion table is needed to translate the hexadecimal codes of the two respective systems. 2 quest...
We're seeing a 3 gigabyte discrepancy in du -k output versus df -k output in a path on an HP-UX volume. A 3 gigabyte file was deleted with "rm" from this path ... and du output seems to recog...
When I do an 'ls -al'   the results are as follows: total 6582 drwx------+ 3  My Name None       0 May  8 13:08 . drwx------+6   My Name None       0 May  8 13:08 .. -rwx------+ 1   My N...
Type: RSH to other AIX v4/v5 boxes. Issue: RSH continually asks for a password thus screwing up scripts. Environment:  IBM/AFS/AIX v5 Q1:  Has anyone seen the problem where after upgradin...
When I use rm -r on some directories I get this: Unix rm -r override protection 444 (yes/no) Now for each file I have to type 'n' (no) which is time consuming. This happens with only some ...
I have a text file with some information that im trying to process. I want to remove the first two blank lines that only have \n on them, but I need to keep the rest of the lines below that w...
Hello Experts, I have a requirement to write a shell script which will enable me to login to multiple Unix machines and do a user creation task. I have a file which contains the list of h...
Is there any way to retieve always retrieve the full date listing with either the 'ls' command or another shell (korn) command in a file listing. I need to always return the full date.. ...
Hi, I am trying to configure SOLARIS 10 to authenticat my centralized LDAP server using pam_ldap from PADL . but it does not authentical gives login dnied. i have complied the pam_ldap and...
I have change the IP address in hosts file but it doesn't take effect.  I have check the hardware configuration in sysadmsh, it doesn't show any network device? Please advice my for the above ...
I am using SUN 5.8 I want to print a korn shell variable user into an awk script. I have tried different versions of the find script without success. ******* script ******* #!/bin/...
Unix Open Server 5: I have a file that is locked.  Rebooting the server unlocks the file.  How can I unlock the file without rebooting?
I need to backup two different directories to the same tape using tar. Before I used Legato but that will not run on SUN Solaris 10 I have scripts that successfully move my tape and load it ...
Tim, Please help me to install ssh,sudo and bash in a HP-UX box on a 32 bit kernel. All the  other boxes we admin are of 64 bit and we were able to get the depot package for it. It's ...
I'm using HP-UX. I have a whole directory of several files imported from NT with spaces in the file names. I need a script to change the all the spaces in the file names to underscore. ex...
I am having trouble with a system that a user completely filled the root partition.  I receive a "can't stat /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0" error on boot up.  Any attempt in accessing the partition (fsck,...
Hi, I have inserted the following line in my crontab: */5 * * * * cactiuser /opt/lampp/bin/php /opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/poller.php The CROND is running fine and /var/log/cron shows cle...
This is an easy one for grep experts My top result is like this  top -b -p 3002  -n 1 top - 14:07:30 up 14 days,  4:31,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks:   1 total,   0...
On AIX, the "uname -a" would display a different server name from that of the "hostname" command.  Where does "uname" get its server name from?  What is the purpose of the "uname" having a dif...
hi i'm running AIX 5.1 ML 4 The problem is ... i tried to activate nfs To start the nfs group, i type # startsrc -g nfs nfsd, biod,rpc.statd,rpc.lockd showing ALL STARTED WIT...