News, views, and rants (Jan 06 Archive)

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• 27/01/06 - A new article added in this mornings update, detailing the Installation of Sybase ASE for Linux. This document fills many holes left in the official installation documentation, and also shows you how to create your initial database devices and create a simple database.
  
  
• 14/01/06 - I decided to rewrite the PHP code for the Tips and Tricks Area. I have created a central index file and changed the way in which the individual tips files are parsed. This enhances execution time for the script tremendously. I have also enhanced the "Browse Tips By Category" function. Instead of just receiving a long list of tips sorted by category, it now presents a category list, and you can drill down to the tips you want. Again, much faster execution time for the script. The new category list based browsing can be seen here.
  
  
• 13/01/06 - I have finally started consolidating and reviewing my notes. I've been putting this off for weeks (as I have around 500 text files full of information dotted around). After only a day of sifting through and consolidating some of this information I have uploaded 41 new tips to the Tips And Tricks area. This is a HUGE update and the tips cover a wide variety of subject matter. The tips uploaded are as follows:
  
  Using PAM Tally under Linux
  Remove Files With Strange Filenames
  Set Up Bonding (NIC Teaming) Under RHEL 4
  Configuring Duplex Settings On tg3 Interfaces (RHEL)
  fsck - Recovering From a Corrupt Superblock (Solaris)
  How To Split Comma-Seperated Values (CSV) File Into Fields
  Checking Which Files In Current Directory Are Opened By A Process
  View CPU Utilisation For Past Hour
  Suppressing Errors From find Command
  Using truss To Find Problems With Missing Files And Libraries
  Using quot And ncheck To Summarise Filesystem Ownership
  Notes About The passwd And logins Commands Under Solaris
  Korn Shell - Built In Networking
  How To Use sort And join
  Don't Go grep Crazy When Searching ps Output
  Writing Your Own Library Files
  Renaming Files According To A Pattern
  Current Directory In Your $PATH - No Thanks!
  Force DHCP Server To Listen On One Interface Only
  Perl - Simple SMTP Relay Checking Script
  Solaris - Configuring bge ndd Settings
  Solaris - Get Advertised Network Interface Capabilites
  Testing The VMWare ESX Server Perl Scripting API
  NTP Synchronisation Without ntpd
  Using vi Non-Interactively
  df In Various UNIX Flavours
  Backing Up Your VTOC
  Using ksh Pattern Checking Builtins
  Killing Processes Of Persistently Bad Behaved Users
  VMWare ESX Server One-Liners and Useful Commands
  
  • Show df also displaying vmfs filesystems
  • Create a 10Gb virtual disk file
  • Show ls-style listing for a VMFS filesystem
  • Grab just the capacity information on VMFS filesystem
  • esxtop - Show top-like output for VMs
  • Location of VMWare tools ISO for Windows guests
  • Show a virtual disks partition table
  • Mount a virtual disk partition
  Testing String For Presence Of Character
  Creating Temporary Files
  Finding The Default Runlevel
  Show State of SVM Submirrors
  Quick Way To Populate /etc/cron.d/{at,cron}.{allow,deny}
  Non-Interactive Telnet
  Using compress With Redirection
  Using pfiles To Find Files Open By Process
  Using ptree To Monitor Process Execution
  Finding Network Driver Information
  Display Information Stored In Inodes
  Notes on fsck and lost+found
  
  As you can see - a *massive* update. And there is lots more to come!
  
  
• 11/01/06 - I have written and uploaded a new article detailing the Creation of Solaris Packages. It's a must-read for anybody wanting to maintain a consistent set of administrative tools over a large number of servers.
  
  
• 06/01/06 - I have started the new year at Zazzybob.com by performing a few housekeeping tasks that few people will notice. These mainly related to converting a few rogue redirection symbols to their proper HTML metacharacters within some of the tips on the site. Very boring, but something that needs doing!
  
  Anyway, on to the "proper" update. A couple of new scripts added. checkLostFound is a script for Solaris systems that can be scheduled via cron to periodically check all lost+found directories for files. lgrep is something I use on systems without GNU grep to emulate the functionality of the -A, -B and -C options - this can be very useful.
  
  I have added a new tip to the Tips and Tricks Area. It's an update to an old tip, and shows (in my opinion) the best way to check for core dumps and then delete them. View the tip here.

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