topic Re: system admin scripts in Operating System - HP-UX

system admin scripts

KathyK — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:54:40 GMT

Where is the best location to place the scripts developed by system admin. some might be run from crontab, some manually.

thank you in advance.

OS: HP-UX11.23

Kathy

Re: system admin scripts

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:59:22 GMT

Hi KathyL

A collection posted on this Forum can be found here:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=51050

The author's opening remarks point to two previous threads of the same.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: system admin scripts

KathyK — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:02:05 GMT

Thank you James, that's great:)
but i meant the scripts that I have developed on my system, which directory is the best place to put them? is it
/usr/local/bin?

thanks agian
Kathy

Re: system admin scripts

Dennis Handly — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:05:00 GMT

The location is wherever you can remember them and that make logical sense.
If run manually, you would have to use absolute paths or you would have to add that to your PATH.
Do any of these have to run in single user mode?

Re: system admin scripts

KathyK — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:09:40 GMT

No nothing at single run level. they are cleaning scripts some ftp scripts and some backup scripts. I thought there a standard practice in place for crontab and where the scripts are placed. no?

Re: system admin scripts

Doug O'Leary — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:50:10 GMT

Hey;

There are no hard and fast rules. I usually like /usr/local/bin for scripts that normal users will have to run, /usr/local/sbin for scripts that root and other administrative accounts have to run, and /root/bin for scripts that *only* root should be running.

That's my standard though; your mileage may vary.

Doug O'Leary

Re: system admin scripts

Torsten. — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:52:46 GMT

No, not really.

I prefer to create a "special" directory used for root's home, e.g. /root directly in / . So it is available in any mode and I'm not at the top of the directory tree by default.

Re: system admin scripts

KathyK — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:57:21 GMT

Thank you everyone for your response.
Kathy

Re: system admin scripts

Arturo Galbiati — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:31:12 GMT

Hi Kathy,
I put the scripts under my personal login (on /local/bin, /local/sbin) to allply them the version control by RCS.
Once ok I move them in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin
HTH,
Art

Re: system admin scripts

Sameer Kelkar — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:24:36 GMT

Hello
Check /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow
Make sure entry for root & other users is there.

Re: system admin scripts

KathyK — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:20:10 GMT

thanks again for all the help.