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Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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Veritas Cluster Troubleshooting

February 27, 2008 – 1:26 am
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Veritas cluster server is a high availability server. This means that processes switch between servers when a server fails. All database processes are run through this server – and as such, this needs to run smoothly. Note that the oracle process should only actually be running on the server which is active.

Veritas HSM Maintenance

February 12, 2008 – 11:22 am
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When resizing a VXFS filesystem on a server that has HSM running, it is necessary to place HSM in maintenance mode for that particular filesystem. Failing to do so may cause the VFS resize operation …

Protected: SuSE Mail Transfer Agent Configuration

February 7, 2008 – 3:48 am

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