On 4/22/13 2:28 PM, David Stuart wrote:
Afternoon,
We're bringing in an application that will have between 11 and 14 servers
running Red Hat linux. The vendor is recommending a job scheduler.
We're aware of the Tivoli product from IBM. And I know ASG has one, as does CA.
Can anyone suggest
On 11/2/12 8:15 AM, Mark Post wrote:
Rsync will make the backup copy if you specify "-b", but it certainly won't
give you annotations. Considering that lots of other people use git for maintaining
system configuration files across multiple systems, I don't see anything fundamentally
differen
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On 2/9/11 1:08 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
>
> Doh! I should have remembered that. So the functions I wrote could have been
> implemented as:
>
> Ntee() {
> tee "$@" >/dev/null
> }
>
> Just goes to show that there's usually several ways to do anything in Linux.
> I focused on doing it entirely
On 2/9/11 12:40 PM, McKown, John wrote:
> tee can output to multiple files? The man page implies only a single file.
Hmmm...maybe you need a new enough tee also:
SYNOPSIS
tee [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output.
> So I g
If you have a new enough bash, you can:
bzcat data*bz2 | tee >(process1) >(process2) >(process3) ... | processn
but the stdout from process1..n get intermixed unless redirected to files.
(Tom Meyer taught me that!)
- Larry
On 2/9/11 12:19 PM, McKown, John wrote:
> Yeah, it sound weird. What I
On 2/7/11 1:44 PM, Larry Ploetz wrote:
>
> Those are the ones I seem to use frequently.
>
Oops...and:
lsof /a/mount/point # who's using this mount point? Same info as fuser command
lsof +D /a/directory # who's using any files or directories at or under this
Yes! And the offset operand ("lsof -o irradu00.g*bz2") of lsof may work on
Linux-390 (although I
think its Linux in general it doesn't work on), which will tell you what byte
offset the file
descriptor points to!
Other useful lsof examples:
lsof -c bzip2 # list the open files for all bzip2 comm
On 8/16/10 10:52 AM, McKown, John wrote:
I was taught it was pronouced something like: "wa lay". The latin "v" is more like a
"w" sound.
Oh, like waylay: "to lie in wait for or attack from ambush." Are you saying
Oracle has untoward
intentions ?!? ;-)
- Larry
On 8/16/10 7:41 AM, McKown, John wrote:
"vale" is Latin for "goodbye". Oracle is apparently closing down their support for
OpenSolaris. Oracle does not appear to believe the open software is of much importance. They don't seem to
have much interest that I can see in Java either. And suing Goo
On 6/3/10 8:51 AM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
ConvertDirTree()
{
find "$1" -type f | while read file; do
tmp="$file.ic$$"
if iconv -f "$2" -t "$3" $file"> "$tmp"&& \
chown --reference="$file" "$tmp"&& \
chmod --reference="$file" "$tmp; then
This is purely nit-pick
On 4/13/10 3:31 PM, Larry Ploetz wrote:
Sorry if this is inappropriate for this group...
My wife is doing an I/O (Industrial/Organizational, not Input/Output!)
psychology masters thesis
and desperately needs more respondents for proper statistical significance.
We'd really appreciate
a Ellefson
sonja.ellef...@gmail.com
<http://us.mc355.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sonja.ellef...@gmail.com>
Thanks,
- Larry Ploetz
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On 5/12/09 7:40 AM, Richard Gasiorowski wrote:
Lionel,
When you ftp with anonymous the files known by the group ftp. A quick
bypass is to chmod the directory to 755 or 777 and that should get you
in. Then I would look at the config file of you ftp application - for
instance is vsftp change to
$ x=$$; until [ $x -eq 0 ]; do ps -ocmd= -p $x; x=$(ps -oppid= -p $x); done
-bash
sshd: la...@pts/0
sshd: larry [priv]
/usr/sbin/sshd
init [3]
Feh.
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On 1/22/09 4:38 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
Larry Ploetz wrote:
Scott Rohling _/*DID NOT*/_ wrote:
If I must configure bind, maybe I need a text editor. If I can use a
text editor maybe I can edit /etc/sudoers
I said that
That's what sudoedit (not visudoers!) is for.
The point is t
Scott Rohling wrote:
If I must configure bind, maybe I need a text editor. If I can use a
text editor maybe I can edit /etc/sudoers
That's what sudoedit (not visudoers!) is for.
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On 1/11/09 8:44 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
Probably. How do you know how many blocks to skip?
I don't -- I calculate approximate bytes not-sparse from end-of-file
using stat -- see below. Coincidentally, it happens to be the number of
bytes in all and only the blocks at the end of the file th
On 1/9/09 4:53 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote:
...
At this point I'd suggest reporting a bug through the distributions,
probably all three of Novell (via OpenSUSE), Redhat (via Fedora) and
Debian. Create a bug entry in each distro's bug track. If you provide
a reproducible problem report, and espec
On 1/8/09 12:21 PM, Erik N Johnson wrote:
Does this failure to behave as one might hope perhaps constitute a bug
in a widely used admin utility?
Hmmm...I think so, now that you mention it...at least, I know I'd prefer
logrotate to keep sparse files sparse.
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On 1/8/09 9:36 AM, John McKown wrote:
Is there any better way, in a bash script, to pipe both stdout and stderr
from an application other than using a subshell? So far the only way that
I've thought of to do it is:
(command parm1 ... 2>&1) | othercommand
Others have answered the question, but
On 1/7/09 1:44 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
I see no reason logrotate should not handle sparse files well when
copying them.
Yeah, there's no reason why it shouldn't, but it doesn't (see my empiric
test in previous post).
06:42 [sum...@numbat ~]$ cp --help | grep sparse
--sparse=WHEN
On 1/7/09 11:47 AM, Mark Post wrote:
There are only a very few sparse files ever written to /var/log/. If space is
a concern because they might get really big when being copied, then having
logrotate compress them will solve that. The few sparse files I am aware of
aren't kept open all the
On 1/7/09 10:15 AM, Mark Post wrote:
On 1/7/2009 at 5:44 AM, John Summerfield
wrote:
-snip-
logrotate expects you're logging sensibly. John is not.
"sensibly" means the program can close and reopen the logfile on demand.
That is not a requirement for logrotate. If nothing else the "copy
assumption that log files can reasonably be
99.999% saved, since one doesn't inspect 99% of all logs' contents.
However, as John points out, one should be aware of potential loss.
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On 1/6/09 1:50 PM, John McKown wrote:
I've got a small problem. I have a daemon which I cannot easily restart
because it is production and people are using it. The daemon is started
with something like:
daemon args>>daemon.log
The file "daemon.log" is getting very huge. The correct way to fix t
be
useful to trigger running a script (Rexx or other) when, e.g., a spool
directory changes.
- Larry
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On 10/8/08 1:40 PM, John McKown wrote:
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Larry Ploetz wrote:
- Larry
PS wow, I guess it's been a while since I've touched MVS...ah, z/OS --
lrecl 1, blocksize 0?!?
Well, that is my own weird idea of how to store "byte stream" data. The
RECFM=FB s
On 10/8/08 9:17 AM, John McKown wrote:
I didn't see the original message. Apparently the OP wants to backup
RHEL/Intel files on z/OS. I will mention a very nice product which is
free, but not open source. It is Co:Z from Dovetailed Technologies.
http://www.dovetail.com
What this can do is estab
On 9/23/08 12:21 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote:
I would like an easy way to prefix the results of a command with the timestamp.
The command:
vmstat 10 8640> vmstat.out
I start this up at 5 PM, so I can see if some process starts using the Linux
system at night. Great results, but without a timest
Alan Cox wrote:
1:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6
2: http://www.knoppix.net
3: http://www.skolelinux.org
4: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Now if anyone has some dates of when they were started for Slackware, SuSE, or
RedHat we can know
which
Reminds me of when we used to use Bell Lab's QED editor on 3270's on
TSO, when FSE was "too expensive". I installed it at USC and actually
taught seminars in it to TSO users.
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It does require a kernel modification.
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Or, if you prefer RPN:
$ dc -e '4k 14595.470 200.00 + 4331.00 / p'
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I wrote:
larry$ bash -c 'set -x; list="a|b|c"; t=a; eval "case $t in ( $list )
echo one;; b ) echo two;; esac'
Not sure if anyone's interested in this technique, but if you do try the
above, it won't work -- some email client/server and/or copy-and-paste
messed it up. It should be:
|bash -c
a in
++ echo one
one
(although James would still have the problem of one system name being a
subset of another system name.)
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s?
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Mark Post wrote:
If that doesn't help, then put a "set -x" right after the #!/bin/sh line, and
send the output, along with the command invocation.
or put "-x" on the shebang line:
#! /bin/sh -x
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Stricklin, Raymond J wrote:
I would, however, use -e instead of -f, because the system
name is probably a directory, not a plain file.
indeed, then why not use -d ?
ok
r.
Both good points -- use the operator best suited to the task. If you
want to make *sure* it's a file, use -f; if di
I posted three responses with the wrong email address:
You could do something else entirely, like:
larry$ a=a
larry$ echo $list
a|b|c
larry$ [[ $list =~ $a ]] && echo hi || echo ho
hi
larry$ a=d
Mark Post wrote:
count=$(wc -l /var/log/toolarge | cut -f1 -d" ")
let start=$count-
if [ ${start} -le 1 ]; then
echo start is set to 1
let start=1
fi
start=$((count > 1 ? count - 1 : 1))
like c.
- Larry
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Mark Post wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 5:54 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Larry Ploetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-snip-
in your sshd_config file, to keep them all in one place. Then you could
allow/prevent users from updating their own authorized_keys. Or even put
al
f '%s\t%s\n' $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) usera >>
/var/ssh/root_access; bash -c \'$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND\'"
in his authorized_keys file, with "usera" unique to each public key
indicating whose key was used (but not who used the key).
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Leland Lucius wrote:
Quoting "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
#!/bin/sh
newhome="/java160"
if [ ! -z "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e "s#$JAVA_HOME/bin##g;s/::/:/g")
Disregarding the adjacent colons (which don't matter anyway), reasonably
recent bashes can make the subst
Post, Mark K wrote:
John,
What I do is send a
get linux-vm 0212
command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] every month (changing the file name, of
course) and pull down the entire archive. I have a complete set starting
from 9812. I grep through them to find what I'm looking for. Very fast,
and well
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