How to create a new logical volume in Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux.
(1) Click on System – Administration – Logical Volume Manager. (2) Expand Uninitilized Entities on the left window by clicking on the arrow next to it. You will now see …
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How to change the shell in Linux or Unix.
Linux and Unix have a vairety of shells. A shell is a program that provides the text interface, it reads the interactive or non interactive commands, interprets and executes the …
Read MoreErrors regarding libXp.so.6 in linux
I received errors regarding libXp.so.6 launching the Fame 9.3 release 3 on Redhat Enterprise Linux 5. Error while loading shared library libXp.so.6 Cannot open shared object file. No such file …
Read MoreTOP and TOPAZ are Unix, Linux and AIX utilities that provides real time display of top cpu using processes.
As a server/systems administrator you will find the TOP utility very useful to determine top cpu using processes. TOP is the utility for Linux and most Unix operating systems. IBM …
Read MoreDetermine the disk usage of a file system in Linux or Unix.
As a server administrator you will find that the df commad is very useful to find out the disk usage of a file system in Unix or Linux. Depending on …
Read MoreHow to determine the folder size in Unix or Linux.
The du command displays disk usage for each file or folder. You can use this command to find the size of a folder in Unix or Linux. Below are some …
Read MoreHow to determine the current shell type in Linux or Unix.
Here is the command to find out what your current shell type is in Linux or Unix. This works for most variants of Unix, Aix, and Linux. echo $0, this …
Read MoreUpgrading SpamAssassin on Fedora 4 server.
Download the lastet version of SpamAssassin version 3.2.5, the file name is Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5.tar.gz. You can get the latest version from spamassassin.apache.org. In this step by step example I am upgrading …
Read MoreHow to determine the version of Aix, Solaris and Linux.
How to determine the version of Solaris you are running. uname -a This will list the Solaris version on your server. uname -X will display the extended information with more …
Read MoreHow to find a file in Unix, Linux, Aix, Solaris.
If you are not sure about the name of the file and which directory it stored in then you can use the find command to search for it. The Find …
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