I've been using pick since R83 but have been away from it for the past 7 years. I've got Universe all working well under redhat but am unable to find the command to execute unix shell command from inside of universe.

In AP I could do this with the ! in front and D3 has something similar.

Hi,

I normally do a

EXECUTE "SH -c 'COMMAND'"

Hope this helps,

Frans


On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:28:09 -0400, Ctait
<Ctait.26w3sz (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.yourdomain.com.au> wrote:

Cheers man.

I tried that and it returns "/bin/ps: cannot execute binary file"

any ideas from here?

SWEET!!

Ignore that last reply it works fine inside basic, thats all I need to do.

I spend over a day reading to try and find the answer - thanks heaps, you saved me getting a headache.

Ctait wrote:

Patrick, <;=)

(latimerp) wrote:

move the files around now and again. You could have been hacked. Try the
root thing and if it works type *who*. If it works then is sounds like
permissions. Do a *ls -l /bin/ps* and check the group and owner permissions.

Patrick, <;=)

I sometimes also change permissions

EXECUTE "SH -c 'usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/bin/su - command' "


not sure if that would help but I think you have a permission error.


Frans




On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:49:27 -0400, Ctait
<Ctait.26wc50 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.yourdomain.com.au> wrote:

Can you execute "ps" from the bash prompt as "root"? If so, type
"whereis ps" and this will show you the pathname for the "ps", which
may differ from /bin/ps. If you can't execute as root, you may have
been hacked with a rootkit, which spoofs commands like "ps" and
"ifconfig"., See the following article

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/...4/rootkit.html

for details. Incidentally, avast! and avg both do free anit-virus
programs for Linux.

when you execute a unix command from within universe, the environment
is not set (at least in my case).
So, I use full paths of what I want to execute:
/usr/bin/ftp
or
/usr/bin/rm /tmp/printouts/[A-Z]*
HTH
Rob