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Hello, I have that sh script: #!/bin/sh DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S` NAME="game" if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $NAME > /dev/null then echo "$NAME service running, everything is fine" else echo "$DATE: Restarting $NAME" >> /root/log cd /usr/home/game/db && ./game fi and it works...

This is probably a noob question, but I have wondered for some time the difference between TTY and terminal like rxvt-unicode or Xterm (and less shell). Is TTY just a virtual device which runs terminal emulator like rxvt-unicode which runs shell like sh or bash? If I have a freshly installed...

Hello, we are using net/ssh in Ruby to execute scripts on a FreeBSD machine, in order to do some checks for Nagios. Actually it is a brand new Pfsense applicance. The code is roughly the following: Net::SSH.start(@host, @user, {:password=>@pass}) do |ssh| erg=ssh.exec! "ls -al" p erg end...

Hello, I admit, I am not proficient with regex. I'm trying to match a pattern taken from the output of reformime. (see below). I am not having much luck. When I can get it to work, then it matches everything. I think this is due to the working pattern matching the longer pattern. Sample...

I need to learn shell scripting before programming so I bought some used books. Are these any good? Most from early 2000's but i doubt much has changed. Mastering Unix Shell Scripting Beginning Shell Scripting Beginning Portable Shell Scripting Shell Scripting Recipes I bought a C book...

Hi, I'm a student and I have to create a script, but I want to show a progress bar when the script is making a backup. For example, I'm making a full backup of the FreeBSD system and while the script is making the job, I want to show a progress or a bar percent completed, is that possible on...

Hello, when calling the gpg command I want gpg2 to be executed instead of gpg1. Both programs are installed. In Linux I used update-alternatives for that. What would be the equivalent in FreeBSD? Thank you.

On pfSense 2.2.4 (FreeBSD 10.1), my custom init script filebeat_wrapper won't start at boot. According to rcorder it should start right after boot: # rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* (snip) /etc/rc.d/SERVERS /etc/rc.d/DAEMON /etc/rc.d/LOGIN /usr/local/etc/rc.d/filebeat_wrapper (snip)...

I am on FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p14 #0: Wed Mar 16 20:46:12 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Installed vim through pkg install vim. My Current shell is: $ echo $SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash My .profile file is edited...

hi I'm dabbling with shell scripting a little and trying to get a backup script running on FreeBSD. #!/bin/csh NOW=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M") FILE="example.com.$NOW.tar" BACKUP_DIR="/usr/home/andy/backups" WWW_DIR="/var/www/" DB_USER="user" DB_PASS="pass" DB_NAME="dbname"...

Hi, I'm an intermediate-level user of FreeBSD. I recently ran into a problem that I have been unable to solve. Basically, most (but not all) commands now return 'Command not found', even if I use the full path, which makes no sense to me whatsoever. The only thing I can think of that...

I decieded to start this thread after reading the thread 'Which shell do you use?'. I'll start, mine is below. # .cshrc - csh resource script, read at beginning of execution by each shell # # # -- Set up command aliases alias searchports 'find /usr/ports -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs...