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 …
Read the full story »Rather than rebuilding an Informix database on the new HP-UX server, it possible to migrate the existing installation from the old server. The database resides on raw disks with transparent volumes that are not visible …
A quick note on creating large JFS filesystems on AIX: if the filesystem is 64Gb or might be expanded to over 64Gb any time in the future, make sure the NBPI (Number of Bytes Per …
Several Veritas VM and system logs can be used to monitor and diagnose problems with the Volume Manager. An automated script can be used to grab the last few lines from these logs whenever a …
GNUPlot is an open-source versitile data plotting and mathematical charting application. Timeline plot is the most common type of a plot you would generate. It also seems that it’s one of the more capricious features …
In the Spring of 2005 Comcast experienced a major DNS outage. Since then many Comcast users have switched to DNS servers that belong to Verizon and other ISPs. Comcast started taking a lot of flak …
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It is sometimes necessary to use complex select and insert queries with dozens of variables. Writing such queries by hand is a tedious process and the chance of making a mistake is high. A few …
NFS is a relatively uncomplicated functionality of any Unix system. However, from time to time you are bound to run in the “permission denied” error while trying to NFS-mount a filesystem. Everything seems to be …
Google Images is an extremely useful tool for webmasters, designers, editors, and just about anybody else who’s in a hurry to find just the right photo or clipart. However, this Google tool has a couple …
ASP.NET developers have been spoiled by intuitive but inflexible GUIs and IDEs. These Microsoft tools (and various third-party add-ons) make your life as a programmer relatively painless; but only as long as you don’t try …
This note explains how to access a Samba server located on the “orange” DMZ subnet from a Windows PC on the “green” LAN. The problem for Samba is caused by the firewall blocking NETBIOS responses. …
A simple one-line command to perform find and replace operations in MySQL:
Some screenshots of KDE 3.2 running under SuSE 9.2 on an AMD 64 machine with CrossOver Windows emulator and Microsoft Office XP installed.
A general view of the KDE desktop with one of the standard backgrounds.
Here’s …
A few screenshots taken with Sun Java Desktop running under Solaris 10 on a SunBlade 2000 workstation, which also works great as a heated footstool when placed under your desk.
A general view of the desktop …
This article contains examples of using prstat to monitor CPU and memory utilization by individual processes and groups of processes.
Example 1: Show CPU and memory usage by all processes called “*ora_smon_imanax*”
The following prstat command will …
Pkg-get Installation Notes
Pkg-get is an open-source, Sun-approved software installation and management tool for Sun Solaris. You can use pkg-get to install a variety of pre-compiled software without having to worry about version compatibility, patch requirements, …
What’s the best Linux distro for desktop applications? My subjective opinion based on years of Linux experience is that SuSE 10 at the moment offers the best combination of features and user friendliness. The latter, …
The following is an overview of the GUI for Veritas Enterprise Administrator 3.2
The following is a process for migrating spreadsheet data to MySQL database using a Shell script in a Unix environment. To follow this tutorial you must already know how to create MySQL schemas and tables. …
The following interactive Korn shell script can be used to make common changes to the configuration of Veritas HA Cluster resources. The script enables you to view the listing of available resources; view resource configuration; …
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