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rlim_fd_max and 99% IO Wait - Solaris 8 Sun server
Posted on August 4th, 2005 | 2 Comments

I saw this same thing happen on an apache server that was being beaten up very badly. The access log grew to just over 2GB and stopped growing. Turned out to be a file-size limitation (I think...

Makefile help
Posted on August 4th, 2005 | 1 Comments

skyfaye@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, the answer to your question is simply no, however, you can often accomplish something similar using Makefile macros, i.e. macronumberone = `ls -al...

Multi-line BIND TXT record: how to do it?
Posted on August 4th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Greetings, I've recently been playing with TXT records (for SPF) on my BIND servers, and I have managed to reach the line-length limitation. The limit is 256 (or 255, depending on where you look)...

nfsstat -m for checking timeo
Posted on August 2nd, 2005 | 5 Comments

There are files registry, registry.local and registry.default in the filer NetApps in /etc area. In these registry files contains configuration. Which command should I execute in order to activate...

Top 10 subjects comp.unix.admin
Posted on July 31st, 2005 | 0 Comments

Top 10 subjects for the 7 day period ending Monday August 1, 2005. posts kbytes subject 7 12.6 1 week encryption/security course? 5 8.6 counting number of sheets printed from a...

Top 10 posters comp.unix.admin
Posted on July 31st, 2005 | 0 Comments

Top 10 posters for the 7 day period ending Monday August 1, 2005. posts kbytes name address 3 3.8 Dave Hinz DaveHinz@spamcop.net 2 3.5 Heiner...

Unix experts wanted
Posted on July 30th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Dear system manager, Do you often wonder who built a certain website and how it is done? And who manages that website right now? Strange, but webpeople usually stay anonymous while they should...

How to determine the partition for a file
Posted on July 29th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Pascal Bourguignon wrote: File system vs partition is the part that interested me. The logical volume layer means multiple partitions can be in the same filesystem. "df $FILE" give the...

1 week encryption/security course?
Posted on July 29th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote: Another excellent book is Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems" One of the (many) things I liked about...

svn: Can't create a converter from 'UTF-8' to 'native'
Posted on July 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have subversion on sun solaris. First, I need to create a respository as below: svnadmin create /usr/local/repos --fs-type fsfs and I got an error as below: svnadmin create /usr/local/repos...

Installing JDK 1.5.0 on Solaris 8
Posted on July 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have downloaded the Java source from java.sun.com with the following files: jdk-1_5_0-src-scsl.zip jdk_sec-1_5_0-src-scsl.zip I was following the instruction on building it. Once I am trying to...

counting number of sheets printed from a printer
Posted on July 27th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Thanks for so many good replies. BTW--have anyone ever tried http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/ScreenShots/action_ScreenShots http://www.nongnu.org/printanalyze/screenshot.htm

Patching Systems Easier
Posted on July 25th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hello Martyna, martyna.werner@mpls.frb.org wrote: Once you have resynced the mirror, there will be no master as such. They will both have a copy of the active configuration. If you left the...

Top 10 posters comp.unix.admin
Posted on July 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Top 10 posters for the 7 day period ending Monday July 25, 2005. posts kbytes name address 5 9.2 Giorgos Keramidas keramida@ceid.upatras.gr 5 6.5 ...

Top 10 subjects comp.unix.admin
Posted on July 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Top 10 subjects for the 7 day period ending Monday July 25, 2005. posts kbytes subject 8 12.5 CVS source control tool 6 22.3 Solaris 10 NFS problem ? 5 8.0 CVS remote checkout 4...

CVS remote checkout
Posted on July 22nd, 2005 | 4 Comments

On 22 Jul 2005 02:08:56 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: Yes. And before you think that Giorgos is being picky and/or presenting a not widely held view, let me just say...

star backup and restore
Posted on July 20th, 2005 | 0 Comments

To any star/tar/backup/fs gurus I am using star to backup and restore a solaris 9 system. I take a periodic level 0 dump from a snapshot and intermittent incremental dumps. I find a daily...

chmod does not copy write permissions to others
Posted on July 20th, 2005 | 10 Comments

In article <rbWdneyN_oHuIkDfRVn-ug@comcast.com>, Eric <BorgMotherShip@AliensR_US.org> wrote: Do you realize you're replying to something over 2 weeks old? I'm pretty sure someone pointed this out...

"no password" ssh command run on remote system as different user
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 1 Comments

apologies. ignore the drivelk above. its turning into one of those days! ian

Backup onto DVD
Posted on July 19th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I would like to have the following backup system. What are your recommendations (open source or closed source) ? Does this make any sense at all ? I want to backup every night my server's data...