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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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SystemD: Back To The Future

May 23, 2017 – 8:38 pm
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A creature in its death throes, Sun Microsystems gave birth to Solaris SMF – the product of a disturbing union between Unix System V and the Microsoft Windows Registry. Shortly thereafter the proud father died, …

Migrating Filesystems with Active Processes

May 2, 2017 – 1:47 pm
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I’ve run into an interesting challenge: I needed to migrate application data from a local filesystem to NFS without stopping the processes running in the original mountpoint. Here’s a basic overview of the process. This …