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Last Day at the Dance Class

A little sadness has taken over me. Today was my last day at Dance Verve. Remember this(last para)? A week after that I joined Dance Verve at BTM Check Post. Read More

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Hands of God

Uruguay vs. Ghana
Quarter final match – 2010 FIFA World Cup™

I was sleepy, but somehow this match seemed very good. I had to wash my face with cold water to stay awake. I must tell you, it was WORTH it. Much much more than WORTH it. An exciting match. Last few moments I had my heart in my mouth. I wasn’t supporting any of the teams, but still I feel heartbroken; Ghana should have won. Unfair.

Finally Luis Suarez did it. It was The Hands of God. If it wasn’t for these Hands, Uruguay was surely going out of the world cup. It gave them a hope, a chance to come back and oh boy, they didn’t miss it. For the Uruguayans Luis Suarez is the hero!

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A Planned Visit Gone Wrong

15th July 2010 Early morning –
The shopkeeper A got a shocker when he opened the door. Some items inside the shop were displaced, the drawer opened, 200/- missing. He informed my Dad, the show owner. Since the door was locked and there was no sign of any damage to the door or the locks they decided that somebody has access to the keys or someone has got the duplicates done. They decide to change the locks and drop the issue because, they thought, going to the police for a mere 200/- is stupidity and they might have to spend a lot more than that if they call the police! I didn’t pay much attention any of these.

16th July 2010 2330Hrs
I went to bed. A little too early that day. I did not any clue that there won’t be any sleep that night!

Stupidity

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My Culinary Skills – I

I wanted to show off my culinary skill(if I have any =P) the other day when I made a chicken dish, unfortunately I forgot to post it. This was in draft mode for over 5 months now! I had completely forgotten about it until yesterday when I started preparing biriyani. Publishing it now, enjoy. :-)

If I’m not following the recipes which I read somewhere, I will keep it very simple. First I check what are the items I can use, then etch a plan, pick the items, and cook. That is exactly what I did in these two occasions. The recipes are very simple and I’m not going to type it in detail – I’m a little too bored to do that now.

Just in case you didn’t get it, that is Chicken Dry. =P

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Autosys and Unix Permission

Autosys job called jobName executes with xyz id. The profile used is profile; owner of profile is abc and neither group nor others have execute permission on this profile. jobName executes jobScript which is owned by xyz(both jobName & jobScript are owned by xyz). abc and xyz are two users. There is a group abc as well.

$id abc
uid=1234(abc) gid=10(abc)
$id xyz
uid=1234(xyz) gid=10(users)
$ll profile
-r-xr----- 1 abc abc 1000 [...] profile
$groups xyz | grep abc
$ll jobScript
-r-xr----- 1 xyz abc 3000 [...] jobScript
$autorep -q -J jobName | egrep 'command|owner'
command: jobScript
owner: xyz
$

When the Autosys job(jobName) is executed, it fails with return code 1. This is correct since xyz doesn’t have execute permission on profile.

$chmod 544 profile
$ll profile
-r-xr--r-- 1 abc abc 1000 [...] profile
$

Now, the job runs fine!

Does it mean xyz is able to execute the profile with just read access? OR Autosys does something like this?

$cat profile > /home/xyz/tempProfile
$. tempProfile
$rm -f tempProfile
$. jobScript

Need to check how Autosys sources the profile and invokes the command in detail. Drop in a comment if you have an explanation.

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