Sometime ago I had written an article about using robocopy to copy files across the network. It is a reliable way to copy files with all the attributes intact. Robocopy can withstand interruption to the network connectivity and will pick up from where it stopped copying. It can also be used to replicate files...
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The root file system on my Solaris Unix server was low on free space, it was 98% full. Upon investigation I found out that there was a very large file 1.8 G in size. This file nohup.out was created by the Tivoli backup job. I could tell that it was created by Tivoli by...
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Here is how you can change the NTP server’s information on your Solaris server. Edit /etc/inet/ntp.conf add the below line server ntp.paris.hilton.com You will now need to restart the NTP service. /etc/init.d/xntpd stop /etc/init.d/xntpd start The last thing you need to do is to check to see if the client is communicating with the...
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Sometime ago I had posted a Korn script to automate FTP login and upload of file on a Unix or Linux computer. The default shell for most Linux servers is bash. I ran into a situation on a VMware ESX server where the only shell available is bash. I had rewrite my script in...
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Blat is a handy command line utility that sends email with attachment using SMTP. It can also be used to post to usenet using NNTP. It is not an SMTP server, you will need an SMTP server for Blat to send email. Blat can be downloaded from blat.net, it is very wasy to use....
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The operating system on VMware ESX 3 is a striped down version of linux. It has only the bare necessities for VMware to function. I wanted to configure a cron job to email the log file, but because sendmail is not installed the mailto command did not work. I decided to write a script...
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The awk command is very handy when you need to filter the contents of a file, a pipe,or keyboard. It searches each line of input for patterns that you specify and when the pattern is matched, it performs an action. You specify the action and patterns. The action could be to count the number...
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Once a command is run, a process is created. This process then opens three flows: stdin, called the standard input, where the process will read the input data. By default stdin refers to the keyboard; STDIN is identified by the number 0; stdout, called standard output, where the process will write the output data....
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As a Linux/Unix server administrator I ran into an occasion where I had to automate the file transfer via ftp to a remote server. I had to create a shell script to automatically login to the remote ftp server and then upload the file. I then schedule this script to run daily through a...
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I have recently taken ownership of a Solaris 5.9 server and am in the process of migrating the applications over to a recent release. I decided to audit the applications and configuration of all the apps installed. One of the very long list of items I needed to figure out is the cron job,i.e....
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