If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

Here at work we use an old SCO UNIX system for some of the day to day operations. To make my role as desktop support a little faster I was hoping to write a script that would kill all of the TTYs on ...

Sending a Tivoli event from a Unix script involves the following steps: <probe_argument> is any qualifier associated with the event, such as the disk, network ...

This Wiley Publishing tome is big (more than 650 pages), useful and very complete. Be warned, however, that its scope is limited to system administration. The purpose of the book is to solve “real ...

Clearly, other vital information concerning a script can be displayed using a series of echo commands — all related to where we are when we run the script and how we call it. If we run a script like ...

ITworld.com – One of my newer users asked me just yesterday how he might record a login session in order to review the commands he entered and the output he generated at a later time. I pointed out ...