Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
There's an errorneous extra ^ in line 6 - please remove this character. Fixed version should look like: #!/bin/sh PROCESS_PATTERN="^/usr/local/sbin/saslauthd" PGREP="/bin/pgrep" if ${PGREP} -q -j none -f ${PROCESS_PATTERN}; then echo -e "OK" else echo -e "FAIL" fi frank\ -- 43rd Law of C

Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
On 24.08.2012 02:14, Jack Stone wrote: Thanks, I tried that but pgrep only displayed the PIDs. I guess I wasn't using proper switches. Yes - and this should be enough. If pgrep returns PIDs - then this is the same as 'true' in your 'if' condition - if it returns nothing, the 'else' part is execu

Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
On 24.08.2012 00:57, Jack Stone wrote: [...] How can I modify my script to see only the host based on the bottom line above? pgrep(1) has an option (-j jid) to either include jails by given id or to exclude them (-j none). HTH, Frank Reppin -- 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can g

small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Jack Stone
Running freebsd-7.0 I use a small script in a jail to check if Apache is running and if not, restart it. #!/bin/sh #if ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep -i httpd #then #echo "Apache is alive.." #else #echo "Apache is dead, but will be launched." #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start Howe

Re: script help

2011-02-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:47:57 +0100 > From: Bernt Hansson > Subject: Re: script help > > 2011-02-14 23:34, Jack L. Stone skrev: > > Hello folks: > > Hello! > > > No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. > > > # find all o

Re: script help

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:47:57 +0100 Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2011-02-14 23:34, Jack L. Stone skrev: > > Hello folks: > > Hello! > > > No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. > > > # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year > > 2010 with 2011

Re: script help

2011-02-16 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-02-14 23:34, Jack L. Stone skrev: Hello folks: Hello! No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able to add it as a cr

Re: script help

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Andreev
2011/2/15 RW : > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:57:12 +0300 > Peter Andreev wrote: > >> Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec" >> construction > > This is a surprisingly common myth. exec can pass single or multiple > arguments  according to whether you use ";" or "+" You are

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Schmehl writes: > --On February 15, 2011 12:57:12 PM +0300 Peter Andreev > wrote: > >> Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec" >> construction >> >> find / -type f -name copyright.htm | xargs sed -i .bak -e 's/2010/2011/g' >> > > I believe you, but can you explai

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 15, 2011 12:57:12 PM +0300 Peter Andreev wrote: Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec" construction find / -type f -name copyright.htm | xargs sed -i .bak -e 's/2010/2011/g' I believe you, but can you explain why this is true? What makes xargs f

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 02:53 PM 2/15/2011 +, RW wrote: >On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:57:12 +0300 >Peter Andreev wrote: > >> Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec" >> construction > >This is a surprisingly common myth. exec can pass single or multiple >arguments according to whether you use

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread RW
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:57:12 +0300 Peter Andreev wrote: > Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec" > construction This is a surprisingly common myth. exec can pass single or multiple arguments according to whether you use ";" or "+" > > find / -type f -name copyrigh

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > "Jack L. Stone" wrote: > > > # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace > > the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working > > script, I should be able to add it as a cron job to run on the > > first day of each new year. > >

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread Jack L. Stone
ht is claimed, could be construed as a fraudulent claim. >___ Wow! You wandered way off the trail. I own the tech magazine I founded 23 years ago and we publish monthly to 214 countries. I hav also practiced law for my companies for nearly 40 years, so quit worrying

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Andreev
Use of "xargs" on many files will be much faster than "find...exec" construction find / -type f -name copyright.htm | xargs sed -i .bak -e 's/2010/2011/g' 2011/2/15 erikmccaskey64 : > my little opinion: first run the changes on a backup, or a copy of the files: > > this one works under linux bash

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread erikmccaskey64
my little opinion: first run the changes on a backup, or a copy of the files: this one works under linux bash fedora: how to create a "shadow" of a folder [same filenames in another dir, but with 0 Byte size] in the original, "A" directory: find . -type f > a.txt "B" directory: cat ../a.txt |

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread perryh
"Jack L. Stone" wrote: > # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace > the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working > script, I should be able to add it as a cron job to run on the > first day of each new year. Before actually doing this, you might want to co

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote: > # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year > 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able > to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. find . -name copyright.

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Hello folks: > > No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. > > I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line > requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many > different di

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Jarrod Slick
On 2/14/11 3:34 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote: Hello folks: No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many different directories on a server wi

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Jack L. Stone on Monday, 14 February 2011: > Hello folks: > > No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. > > I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line > requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many > different direct

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:34:37PM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: > # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year > 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able > to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. The followin

script help

2011-02-14 Thread Jack L. Stone
Hello folks: No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many different directories on a server with numerous domains. While I could handle t

Re: Bash Script Help - File Names With Spaces -- SOLVED

2010-08-17 Thread Anonymous
Drew Tomlinson writes: > It finally occurred to me that I needed the shell to see a new line as > the delimiter and not whitespace. Then a simple search revealed my > answer: > > O=$IFS > IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b") > > IFS=$O Old IFS value can be preserved by using `local' keyword or (...) braces,

Re: Bash Script Help - File Names With Spaces

2010-08-17 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:47:25 -0700, >> Drew Tomlinson said: D> Then I attempt to use 'basename' to extract the file name to a variable D> which I can later pass to 'ln'. This seems to work: D> basename "/archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA D> Singles/1980-028 Kenny Loggins -

Re: Bash Script Help - File Names With Spaces

2010-08-17 Thread Timm Wimmers
Am Dienstag, den 17.08.2010, 08:22 -0700 schrieb Chip Camden: > find -E ... | while read i; do; basename $i; done The semicolon behind "do" isn't necessary. -- Timm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Bash Script Help - File Names With Spaces

2010-08-17 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/17/2010 8:22 AM, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Drew Tomlinson on Tuesday, 17 August 2010: I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format (all one line - sorry if it wraps): /archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028 Kenny Loggins - This Is It.mp3

Re: Bash Script Help - File Names With Spaces -- SOLVED

2010-08-17 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 8/17/2010 7:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format (all one line - sorry if it wraps): /archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028 Kenny Loggins - This Is It.mp3 I want to create symbolic links to the top 30

Re: Bash Script Help - File Names With Spaces

2010-08-17 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Drew Tomlinson on Tuesday, 17 August 2010: > I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format (all > one line - sorry if it wraps): > > /archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028 Kenny > Loggins - This Is It.mp3 > > I want to create symbolic link

Bash Script Help - File Names With Spaces

2010-08-17 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format (all one line - sorry if it wraps): /archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028 Kenny Loggins - This Is It.mp3 I want to create symbolic links to the top 30 in 1966-1969 in another directory for easy m

Re: script help

2006-09-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:36:09PM -0700, ann kok wrote: > > Dear Paul > > Thank you for your mail > > I want to run a script xx seconds automatically > > but cronjob is limited minutes > > Thank you I think what you're after is sleep(1) -- Frank echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l

Re: script help

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, September 05, 2006 15:36:09 -0700 ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Paul Thank you for your mail I want to run a script xx seconds automatically but cronjob is limited minutes That's correct. The fastest you can run a cron job is every minute because that's how often c

Re: script help

2006-09-05 Thread ann kok
Dear Paul Thank you for your mail I want to run a script xx seconds automatically but cronjob is limited minutes Thank you --- Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:16:26 -0700 ann > kok > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > I would

Re: script help

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:16:26 -0700 ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I would like to ask script question 1/ if i use the script to run within 1 minute, I can't run it in the cronjob. how can I run this script automatically? I don't understand what you mean here. Are

script help

2006-09-05 Thread ann kok
Hi all I would like to ask script question 1/ if i use the script to run within 1 minute, I can't run it in the cronjob. how can I run this script automatically? 2/ I have file "file.txt" as below, there are two fields. 4 999 10 200 15 400 60 900 I write "awk script" to exact field 2 if the fi

Re: Need /bin/sh script help

2006-04-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello again all, Just making a series of sh scripts to help automate updating and whatnot of my fileserver (since I am trying to avoid having mistakes occur with my system, and maybe help the community out a bit by providing some decent means of updating their own mac

Re: Need /bin/sh script help

2006-04-11 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:30:32 -0700 Garrett Cooper wrote (my brief response > follows all of his text): > > Just making a series of sh scripts to help automate updating and > whatnot of my fileserver (since I am trying to avoid having mistake

Re: Need /bin/sh script help

2006-04-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:30:32 -0700 Garrett Cooper wrote (my brief response follows all of his text): Just making a series of sh scripts to help automate updating and whatnot of my fileserver (since I am trying to avoid having mistakes occur with my system, and maybe help the community out

Re: Need /bin/sh script help

2006-04-11 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Garrett Cooper thusly... > > I was wondering if anyone could help me out with the following > script I've developing (the grep if statements are incorrect..): > > #!/bin/sh > # > > KC=""; > > cd /usr/src; > > if [ -n `grep -e s/KERNCONF=/ /etc/make.conf` ]

Re: Need /bin/sh script help

2006-04-11 Thread RW
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 06:30, Garrett Cooper wrote: > cd /usr/src; > if [ -n `grep -e s/KERNCONF=/ /etc/make.conf` ] # want to look for > KERNCONF in /etc/make.conf if [ `make -V KERNCONF` ] > read KERNCONF; > KC="KERNCONF=$KERNCONF"; > fi You need to check that KC actually e

Need /bin/sh script help

2006-04-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello again all, Just making a series of sh scripts to help automate updating and whatnot of my fileserver (since I am trying to avoid having mistakes occur with my system, and maybe help the community out a bit by providing some decent means of updating their own machines), and I was wonde

Re: Shell Script Help

2006-01-29 Thread Angelo Christou
Hello Patrick, Your suggestion works perfectly. Thank you very much for helping a learner such as myself. Ang. Proniewski Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29 janv. 06, at 16:10, Angelo Christou wrote: > list.txt contains: > > bob home 9002 > jim data 9005 > Running the following for e

Re: Shell Script Help

2006-01-29 Thread Proniewski Patrick
On 29 janv. 06, at 16:10, Angelo Christou wrote: list.txt contains: bob home 9002 jim data 9005 Running the following for each line is what I'm trying to do: myprogram bob home 9002 myprogram jim data 9005 and so on.. give this a try: while read myline; do set -- $myline myprogr

Shell Script Help

2006-01-29 Thread Angelo Christou
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.0 with Bash as my shell. I am trying to automate a task and I have been reading a lot about Bash, but I haven't been able to get a script working. I have a program that I need to pass 3 variables. I have a text file called list.txt that has the variables separated

Re: Perl script help

2006-01-25 Thread Jack Stone
From: Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl script help Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:29:39 -0600 Jack Stone wrote: I'm using an old (2001) canned perl script to manage questions to my tech site.

Perl script help

2006-01-25 Thread Jack Stone
I'm using an old (2001) canned perl script to manage questions to my tech site. It is of big help since it can answer common questions from templates and a real time saver. Alas, that time saves is now being diminished by junk mail about cheap drugs and I'm trying to figure out how to filter t

Re: Script help for updating routine

2005-11-03 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/2/05, Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a script, pasted in below, which does various things on a daily basis, like cvsup src, docs, ports, portsdb, portversion, portupgrade, & so on

Re: Script help for updating routine

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/2/05, Denny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I have a script, pasted in below, which does various > things on a daily basis, like cvsup src, docs, ports, > portsdb, portversion, portupgrade, & so on. I finally > figured out how to do the

Script help for updating routine

2005-11-02 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a script, pasted in below, which does various things on a daily basis, like cvsup src, docs, ports, portsdb, portversion, portupgrade, & so on. I finally figured out how to do the if/then/else thing with the portversion-portupgrade part of the

Re: Script help using "cut"

2005-08-24 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Script help using "cut" > On 2005-08-24 11:41, antenneX <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Script help using "cut"

2005-08-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-24 11:41, antenneX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> sed -e 's/)[[:space:]]*$//' -e 's/^.*@//' >> >> or you can use as complex regular expressions as necessary to cut >> specific parts of the line: >> >> sed -e 's/[EMAIL PROTECTED]([^)]*\))[[:spa

Re: Script help using "cut"

2005-08-24 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Script help using "cut" > On 2005-08-24 07:58, antenneX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Script help using "cut"

2005-08-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-24 07:58, antenneX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>"Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) All ideas appre

Re: Script help using "cut"

2005-08-24 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: "antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:35 PM Subject: Re: Script help using "cut" > - Original Message - > From: "Giorgos Ke

Re: Script help using "cut"

2005-08-23 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:16 PM Subject: Re: Script help using "cut" > On 2005-08-23 20:02, antenneX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Script help using "cut"

2005-08-23 Thread antenneX
- Original Message - From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "antenneX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:16 PM Subject: Re: Script help using "cut" > On 2005-08-23 20:02, antenneX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Script help using "cut"

2005-08-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-23 20:02, antenneX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Been trying to complete a script that I can use to grep spam emails > from the maillog, then trim it to just the plain email address. Trying > to use "cut" in the script but it's not doing what I want yet. > > Here is what the earlier lines

Script help using "cut"

2005-08-23 Thread antenneX
Been trying to complete a script that I can use to grep spam emails from the maillog, then trim it to just the plain email address. Trying to use "cut" in the script but it's not doing what I want yet. Here is what the earlier lines have the lines down to so far: "(envelope-from [EMAIL PRO

Re: Shell script help

2005-07-30 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Paul Schmehl thusly... > > --On July 30, 2005 2:57:57 AM -0400 Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >wrote Paul Schmehl thusly... ... > >>@${SED} -e '/man\.macros/r man.macros' -e '/man\.macros/d' > >>${WRKSRC}/doc/${f} \ > >>

Re: Shell script help

2005-07-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On July 30, 2005 2:57:57 AM -0400 Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Paul Schmehl thusly... Running what I *thought* was the same sed command in the Makefile of the port doesn't solve the problem of the formatting of the man pages, but it doesn't generate a

Re: Shell script help

2005-07-30 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote > Paul Schmehl thusly... > > > > @${SED} -e '/man\.macros/r man.macros' ... > In the 1st part, sed sends the output of file 'man.macros' to ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Re: Shell script help

2005-07-29 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Paul Schmehl thusly... > > Running what I *thought* was the same sed command in the Makefile > of the port doesn't solve the problem of the formatting of the man > pages, but it doesn't generate any errors either: > > @${SED} -e '/man\.macros/r man.macros' -e

Shell script help

2005-07-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm working on a new port, and the one thing I can't seem to solve is the man pages. They install fine, but they're not formatted right. In the Makefile that is built from configure, this is the section that handles the man pages: @cd $(TOP_DIR)/doc; for i in *.n; \ do \

Re: Shell script help

2005-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Norberto Meijome wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: = # Rule number variable RuleNum=100 # # this function increments $RulNum var by 100... # # inc () { RuleNum=$(expr $1 "+" 100) } ## # LET'S G

Re: Shell script help

2005-06-29 Thread Björn König
Mike Jeays wrote: "man expr" to give the short answer to your first question: As an example, x=`expr $x + 1` 536 ~ $ x=4 537 ~ $ x=`expr $x + 1` 538 ~ $ echo $ Note the back-quotes to execute a command and return the result, and the need for spaces between each token in the expr command. sh

Re: Shell script help

2005-06-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
Kevin Kinsey wrote: = # Rule number variable RuleNum=100 # # this function increments $RulNum var by 100... # # inc () { RuleNum=$(expr $1 "+" 100) } ## # LET'S GET STARTED #

Re: Shell script help

2005-06-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Mike Jeays wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:52, fbsd_user wrote: My sh shell script ability is not that good. Have 2 simple coding problems. How do I code a statement to subtract one from a field. $rulenum = $rulenum - 1 $rulenum = '$rulenum - 1' one='1' $rulenum = $rulenum - $one $rulenum

Re: Shell script help

2005-06-28 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:52, fbsd_user wrote: > My sh shell script ability is not that good. > Have 2 simple coding problems. > > How do I code a statement to subtract one from a field. > > $rulenum = $rulenum - 1 > $rulenum = '$rulenum - 1' > > one='1' > $rulenum = $rulenum - $one > $rulenum='$

Shell script help

2005-06-28 Thread fbsd_user
My sh shell script ability is not that good. Have 2 simple coding problems. How do I code a statement to subtract one from a field. $rulenum = $rulenum - 1 $rulenum = '$rulenum - 1' one='1' $rulenum = $rulenum - $one $rulenum='$rulenum - $one' None of that works. must really be simple. I also

Re: perl script help

2004-04-16 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Shaun Friedle wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl > $timezone=`date +\%z`;#Gets the offset in $timezone > $timezone =~ s/(\+[0-9][0-9])/$1:/; #Replaces ±NN with ±NN: > print $timezone; #Prints $timezone The regex should allow either a plus or a min

Re: perl script help

2004-04-16 Thread Shaun Friedle
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 17:05, JJB wrote: > I know nothing about writing perl scripts. > > Can somebody show me how to add the : in the output > of the date command in the simple following script? Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl $timezone=`date +\%z`; #Gets the offset in $timezone $ti

Re: perl script help

2004-04-16 Thread Remko Lodder
Not that i am very good in perl, In KSH scripting it's like this: %H:%M for a 00:00 output instead of Perhaps that will help you:-) (Oh the command date +%H:%M) Cheers Well that does not work (FYI) Cheers (perhaps Matthew's comments on this are better ;-) ) -- Kind regards, Remko Lod

Re: perl script help

2004-04-16 Thread Remko Lodder
JJB wrote: I need $timezone to hold the time zone in this format -00:00 The command date +%z will give it as - I know nothing about writing perl scripts. Can somebody show me how to add the : in the output of the date command in the simple following script? The cat statement is just so

perl script help

2004-04-16 Thread JJB
I need $timezone to hold the time zone in this format -00:00 The command date +%z will give it as - I know nothing about writing perl scripts. Can somebody show me how to add the : in the output of the date command in the simple following script? The cat statement is just so I can see

RE: drive space shell script help ?

2003-09-15 Thread Brent Bailey
Awesome that worked ..Im also going to try some of the other options you had mentioned..I wanted to thank you for your help :-) This has got to be the best dam mailing list there is :-) -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Network Engineer, Webmaster, President http

RE: drive space shell script help ?

2003-09-15 Thread Charles Howse
The more I play with your script, the more fun it becomes. #!/bin/sh # this is a script to check drive space and email HSD dept. # cd ~bbailey rm drvspc.txt # Once I'm in ~bbailey, I don't need the complete path to any files there. df -k | # You have to get rid of the word 'Capacity' or your co

RE: drive space shell script help ?

2003-09-15 Thread Charles Howse
> #!/bin/sh > # this is a script to check drive space and email HSD dept. > # > cd ~bbailey > rm ~bbailey/drvspc.txt > df -k | awk '{print$5}' >~bbailey/drvspc.txt > cat drvspc.txt > while read i > do > if [$i > '89']; then This line should be: if [ $i -gt 89 ] ; then The spaces

drive space shell script help ?

2003-09-15 Thread Brent Bailey
Im trying to write a script that will email me when drive space on any given partition is above a certain value. i was trying this ...but no working ... #!/bin/sh # this is a script to check drive space and email HSD dept. # cd ~bbailey rm ~bbailey/drvspc.txt df -k | awk '{print$5}' >~bbailey/d

Re: Script help needed please

2003-08-14 Thread jacob rhoden
Hey, Just an extra thought on top of the previous replies. If you wish to block people bulk downloading, by adding a firewall rule. Perhaps the best thing to do is not to block the ip but put a bandwidth limit on the ip address, so your site just ends up appearing very very very slow if they try t

Script help needed please

2003-08-14 Thread Jack L. Stone
Server Version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 PHP/4.3.1 The above is typical of the servers in use, and with csh shells employed, plus IPFW. My apologies for the length of this question, but the background seems necessary as brief as I can make it so the question makes sense. The prob

Re: Script help needed please

2003-08-14 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:49:49AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Server Version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 PHP/4.3.1 > The above is typical of the servers in use, and with csh shells employed, > plus IPFW. > > My apologies for the length of this question, but the background seems >

Re: Script help needed please

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Conlen
Jack, You can setup Apache to deny access to people using that browser. The catch is that it's easy to work around it by changing the browser string. If they are that desperate to do this after you deny access to people using HTTRACK or other clients you can place a link that no human would ac

Re: Script help needed please

2003-08-14 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 10:36 AM 8.14.2003 -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: >At 03:44 PM 8.14.2003 +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: >>On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:49:49AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: >>> Server Version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 PHP/4.3.1 >>> The above is typical of the servers in use, and with csh sh

Re: Script help needed please

2003-08-14 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 03:44 PM 8.14.2003 +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: >On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:49:49AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: >> Server Version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 PHP/4.3.1 >> The above is typical of the servers in use, and with csh shells employed, >> plus IPFW. >> >> My apologies for t

Re: Script help needed please

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 08:49 14.08.2003 -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: ... When we started providing the articles 6-7 years ago, folks used browsers to read the articles. Now, the trend has become a more lazy approach and there is an increasing use of those download utilities which can be left unattended to download enti

Re: shell script help

2003-07-22 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 02:04, David Bear wrote: > I'm trying to clean up a script that controls my tape better. Among > other things it sets some variable to use later. I've made an error > somewhere and I'm thinking that I'm missing the obvious since I cant > find the error. I want to set comman

shell script help

2003-07-22 Thread David Bear
I'm trying to clean up a script that controls my tape better. Among other things it sets some variable to use later. I've made an error somewhere and I'm thinking that I'm missing the obvious since I cant find the error. I want to set command line options for tar. Below taroptions has what I wa

Re: Script Help

2002-10-08 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Brendan McAlpine wrote: > Hey all, > > I am poring over mail logs and trying to pull out all the email > addresses contained in the log. Does anyone have any idea how I could > do this with a shell script? Untested, and asuming sendmail log format: #!/usr/bin/perl -w while

Script Help

2002-10-08 Thread Brendan McAlpine
Hey all, I am poring over mail logs and trying to pull out all the email addresses contained in the log. Does anyone have any idea how I could do this with a shell script? Thanks Brendan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the