yael's questions

I have few of profiles .pcf files , and I used them in order to automate the vpmclient connection VIA CLI command

• I have WIN XP server

for example

       vpmclient connect "customor_alpha"

until now everything is ok

but I have problem with the last of my profiles - area1.pcf

the problem is when I type in CMD window the following ( to create VPN connection )

     vpmclient connect  "area1"

after 2 second CISCO window will pop up and ask for password , ( username already defined in window )

please advice what could be the problem , why I get the "CISCO PVN window" ? or maybe I have some in correct syntax in my .pcf file ,

I checked the .pcf file again and again and I couldn't find the problem ?

example of area1.pcf ( only example - not my real pcf )

 [main]
 Description=connection to TechPubs server
 Host=10.10.99.30
 AuthType=1
 GroupName=docusers
 GroupPwd=
 enc_GroupPwd=158E47893BDCD398BF863675204775622C49<SNIPPED>
 EnableISPConnect=0
 ISPConnectType=0
 ISPConnect=
 ISPCommand=
 Username=alice
 SaveUserPassword=0
 UserPassword=
 enc_UserPassword=
 NTDomain=
 EnableBackup=1
 BackupServer=Engineering1, Engineering2, Engineering 3, Engineering4
 EnableMSLogon=0
 MSLogonType=0
 EnableNat=1
 EnableLocalLAN=0
 TunnelingMode=0
 TCPTunnelingPort=10000
 CertStore=0
 CertName=
 CertPath=
 CertSubjectName
 SendCertChain=0
 VerifyCertDN=CN=”ID Cert”,OU*”Cisco”,ISSUER-CN!=”Entrust”,ISSURE-OU!*”wonderland”
 DHGroup=2
 PeerTimeOut=90
 ForceNetLogin=

I create new file called - 192.9.200.1

    touch 192.9.200.1

then I create new link that will be pointed to 192.9.200.1 file

    ln -s 192.9.200.1 file

so finally I get:

     ls -ltr /tmp

    -rw-r--r--  1 root root        0 May  8 19:39 192.9.200.1
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       11 May  8 19:39 file -> 192.9.200.1

but when I do ls -ltr on the 192.9.200.1 file I cant see if other link/s is point to 192.9.200.1

     ls -ltr 192.9.200.1
      -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May  8 19:39 192.9.200.1

what the way to identify if file or directory have link/s ,

• remark I don't want to do ls -ltr under /tmp directory to find links !

how to remove the last string after "." character include the "." character itself

implementation can be with sed under Linux/Solaris operation system

example of IP address before change

      192.9.200.1     ( need to remove the .1 )

expected results

      192.9.200

other example

      100.2.2.101FFF

expected results

      100.2.2

I have this file in my linux machine:

 ----------9976723563nneh4_-----192.9.200.4

I try to delete this file but I cant as all see here:

what need to add to rm in order to remove this file ?

rm "----------9976723563nneh4_-----192.9.200.4"
rm: illegal option -- --------9976723563nneh4_-----192.9.200.4
usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...

.

rm '----------9976723563nneh4_-----192.9.200.4'
rm: illegal option -- --------9976723563nneh4_-----192.9.200.4
usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...

I use Perl one-liners in my ksh scripts.

Sometimes it's necessary to get an exit status from the Perl one-liner in order to verify if the Perl one-liner succeeded or not.

For example, I need to verify if the "print" in the Perl one-liner code succeeded or not.

But Perl will exit with status 0 in both cases even if Perl does not match the words "AAA and BBB".

Maybe by changing my code I can get exit status 0 when Perl matches successfully. And get exit status 1 when Perl does not match the words "AAA and BBB".

Is this possible?

more file
AAA BBB


perl -ne '/AAA/ && /BBB/ && print' file
AAA BBB

echo $?
0

more file1
ZZZ

perl -ne '/AAA/ && /BBB/ && print' file1
echo $?
 0

I'm trying to remove the = and ] characters using one sed command:

# echo "A=[A]" | sed s'/[=\]]/ /g'
A=[A]

Something is wrong with this syntax?

I Expect the following results from sed

# echo "A=[A]" | ....sed 
A [A

I run the script - my_script.ksh as process with 5 long arguments

on my solaris/linux machine ( example 1 ) ,

Later I verify the process by

 ps -ef | grep  my_script.ksh 

I don't understand way I not get the all arguments from ps -ef ? , ( see example 2 )

or maybe ps command have limitation to display a long line ? , or maybe need to write the ps command with some flags that will enable to display all arguments ?

what need to do in order see all arguments from ps -ef command ?

Example 1 ( run my_script.ksh with the relevant arguments )

           #  ( /tmp/my_script.ksh PATH1=/usr/lib/efcode/sparcv9/efdaemon PATH2=/etc/opt/VO/share/conf/nnmet/mib/Fore-pre802dot1Q-VLAN-MIB.mib -scan-files -ignore-simbolic-links -give-full-file-details ) &
 [1]     18942

Example 2 ( verify script proccess , but can't see all arguments ? )

       # ps -ef | grep my_script.ksh 
root 18942 11889   0 13:22:20 pts/1       0:00 /bin/ksh /tmp/my_script.ksh PATH1=/usr/lib/efcode/sparcv9/efdaemon PATH2=/etc/o     

sleep is a very popular command and we can start sleep from 1 second:

# wait one second please 
sleep 1

but what the alternative if I need to wait only 0.1 second or between 0.1 to 1 second ?

• remark: on linux or OS X sleep 0.XXX works fine , but on solaris sleep 0.1 or sleep 0.01 - illegal syntax

Is it possible to kill all find process with one command?

I do not want to kill each process as kill -9 25295 , kill -9 11994 , etc.. Rather, what I want is a simple way or command that kill all find process (my target is to perfrom this action on linux and solaris machines).

$ ps -ef | grep find 
root 25295 25290   0 08:59:59 pts/1 0:01 find /etc -type f -exec grep -l 100.106.23.152 {} ; -print
root 11994 26144   0 09:04:18 pts/1 0:00 find /etc -type f -exec grep -l 100.106.23.153 {} ; -print
root 25366 25356   0 08:59:59 pts/1 0:01 find /etc -type f -exec grep -l 100.106.23.154 {} ; -print
root 26703 26658   0 09:00:05 pts/1 0:01 find /etc -type f -exec grep -l 100.106.23.155 {} ; -print

please advice

I have linux and solaris machines, and I need command that work on both OS

I use the following perl line in order to remove all lines that start with "#" why perl command not work ,

remark - need to support also lines that start with space or TAB and then "#"

 perl -i -pe 'next if /^ *#/' file

.

   more file


   # aa a
       #  bbb 

      #xxx

please advice how to match only the valid IPs ( 255.255.255.255 ) from the file.txt and insert only the valid IP into VALID_IP.txt file

• ( see VALID_IP.txt for example )

the solution should be implemented in my ksh script ( so perl or sed or awk is fine also )

more file.txt

     e32)5.500.5.5*kjcdr
     ##@$1.1.1.1+++jmjh
     1.1.1.1333
     33331.1.1.1
     @5.5.5.??????
     ~3de.ede5.5.5.5
     1.1.1.13444r54
     192.9.30.174
     &&^#%5.5.5.5
     :5.5.5.5@%%^^&*
     :5.5.5.5:
     **22.22.22.22
     172.78.0.1()*5.4.3.277

example of VALID_IP.txt file

     1.1.1.1
     192.9.30.174
     5.5.5.5
     5.5.5.5
     5.5.5.5
     22.22.22.22
     172.78.0.1

please advice - what's wrong with my syntax ? ( should not print the "bad interface " )

remark - I work with bash shell

ETH_NAME=eth0         ( or any other as eth1 or eth2 .... )
echo $ETH_NAME

eth0 



[ $ETH_NAME  != eth[0-9] ] && echo bad interface

I want to run sshd restart on Linux and Solaris machine via expect ( my expect run in my ksh script )

I create expect script so when expect see the prompt "#" then he run sshd restart

but the problem is that I run this expect also on solars and the prompt there is ">" so how to create one expect line that support "#" and ">" prompt

on linux

    expect #                {send "/etc/init.d/sshd restart\r"}

solaris

   expect >                {send "/etc/init.d/sshd restart\r"}

I want to print by echo the following "still in process wait another 10 min" every 10 min

Please advice what condition needs to add before the echo command in order to print this line every 10 min?

Remark - counter increase by one every cycle (1 second) , I not want to add Additional delay ( sleep command ) to this script !!!!!

 Until   [    ]
 do
 Counter=1

 sleep 1

  let counter=$counter+1

  [ .... ] &&  echo " still in process wait another 10 min …."

 done 

is it possible to know when need to use tar or gtar according to tar file

for example

I have some tar file as

    sometarfile.tar

how to know if need to use tar or gtar command ?

is it possible to check the tar file and according this to understand which command to run ?

I want to add the following perl command in my bash script please advice

how to change (reduce by one ) the last number that start with "+" character in file with perl ?

Example of original file   ( before run the perl command )

more file




432423
53454
+535
343
45
+1000

example of requested output file ( after run the perl command )

more file




432423
53454
+535
343
45
+999

need help - how to delete the line from the file if the last char is - ":" with sed , on Solaris machine

for example sed will remove the following line (include the black line)

      /etc/val/config/globals.xml:/globals/CLUSTERNODES/node:

example what not need to delete

      /etc/val/config/globals.xml:/globals/CLUSTERNODES/node:node1a

please advice what wrong with my awk syntax and how to fix it ( this syntax is in my ksh script ) and I run my script on linux machine

my target is to get from the file.txt only the lines that between the dates:

FROM 2012-04-19 TO 2012-04-22

remark - other solution can be with perl

[root@test1 /var/tmp]# a='2012/04/19'
[root@test1 /var/tmp]# b='2012/04/22'
[root@test1 /var/tmp]# awk -v A=$a -v B=$b '/A/,/B/' file.txt
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

file.txt

[ 2012/04/18 21:49:01:857 ] Monitor::handle_client_message(): 
[ 2012/04/18 21:50:02:379 ] Monitor::handle_client_message(
[ 2012/04/18 21:57:52:64  ] Monitor::handle_client_message():
[ 2012/04/18 21:57:52:252 ] Monitor::handle_client_message(
[ 2012/04/18 21:58:46:958 ] Monitor::handle_client_message():

[ 2012/04/19 21:58:46:958 ] Monitor::handle_client_message(): 
[ 2012/04/20 21:58:46:958 ] Monitor::handle_client_message(): 
[ 2012/04/21 21:58:46:958 ] Monitor::handle_client_message(): 
[ 2012/04/22 21:58:46:958 ] Monitor::handle_client_message():

I want to number each line in a text file on Linux/solaris by nl command

but only from the third line - is it possible ? and if yes please advice how ?

for example

line1
line2
1 line3
2 line4

I have a Solaris machine ( Solaris installed on Netra-T2000 HW , Solaris version – 5.10 )

I wrote the script called update_after_solaris_already_boot.ksh

This script should automatically update some files/configuration after Solaris completely has finished the boot process.

My question: Where do I need to put script in order to run my it only after Solaris is completely booted?