Newid version !!

[Whitehorse_1]

Hi Admins,

How can I find the version of "newid" installed in my server.?? OSis B.11.11

-- WH

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

whence newid
what

If its provided by depot

swlist -l product | grep newid

SEP

[Whitehorse_1]

Hi Steve,

$ whereis whence
whence:
$ /usr/bin/what /usr/local/bin/newid
/usr/local/bin/newid:
$
$ sudo ll /usr/local/bin/newid
-rwS--x--x 1 root sys 61440 Dec 22 2004 /usr/local/bin/newid
$
$ sudo file /usr/local/bin/newid
/usr/local/bin/newid: PA-RISC2.0 shared executable dynamically linked -not stripped
$

Any other inputs..

-- WH

[Whitehorse_1]

Can someone share any documents on newid for HPUX.. ??

[Pete Randall]

The fact that it is located in /usr/local/bin coupled with the fact that it does not appear on any of my systems suggests to me that it is a contributed utility not part of the normal OS distribution. Try a google search.


Pete

[Patrick Wallek]

Do you know how it was installed? Was it installed via swinstall or was it compiled?

Have you tried the program itself? Perhaps there is something like a '-version' switch or something like that. Trying a '-?' or '-help' might work to get you a list of options.

This does appear to be an add-on program. I've never heard of it before and a brief google search didn't yield anything useful.

[Whitehorse_1]

Hi patrick,

It doesnt seems to be installed using "swinstall" as swlist displayed no output, should have been compiled. But I was way around searching the source code, but couldnt find anything in my server.
Theres something relevant here,

# cat /usr/bin/newid.sh
#!/bin/sh
eval `/usr/bin/X11/resize`
/bin/su - $NEWID

I donno whats this.. !!

# newid (just typed the command)

Usage: newid

It just shows nothing other than the above output,..

-- WH

[Torsten.]

According to your post it does a simple "switch user" (su):

# cat /usr/bin/newid.sh
#!/bin/sh
eval `/usr/bin/X11/resize`
/bin/su - $NEWID

$NEWID is the given username when calling the script.

[Torsten.]

This is very likely written by one of your co-workers.

I assume this is newid version 0.01alpha - ask them!

;-)

[OldSchool]

1) from what you've posted "newid" is in no way related to "newid.sh". Note the message output from "newid" isn't contained in the shell script.

2) google shows references to "newid" in transact-sql. are you perhaps running sybase db on this machine?

what issue are you trying to resolve that requires you find the version of this?