by Troy Kena » Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:41:30
I'm running Solaris 2.3 (patched like a quilt). Our machine (SS20/612)
crashed
a couple of weeks ago and ever since then the 'last' command only shows
info up to the date of the crash. The file in /var/adm
(wtmp,wtmpx,utmp,utpmx)
are still being updated - judging by file-size and date - yet 'last' just
doesn't work.
Any ideas...?
Regards,
Flash.
1. Why doesn't echo "text" 'command' "more text" work?
^ ^
Wrong quotes, should be -
echo "You have" `grep Subject: /usr/spool/mail/me | wc -l` "messages."
or -
echo "You have `grep Subject: /usr/spool/mail/me | wc -l` messages."
But, another problem is, if you've no mail, /usr/spool/mail/me does not
exist, leading grep to say:
grep: can't open /usr/spool/mail/me
Wc will still report 0.
You might try -
sh -c 'echo "You have `grep 2>/dev/null Subject: /usr/spool/mail/me | wc -l` messages."'
Hope this helps.
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