Solaris ‘ping’
The ‘ping’ command on Solaris can send you off in wrong direction of troubleshooting if you do not use it carefully. Consider the following basic command # ping sunsolve.sun.com sunsolve.sun.com is...
View ArticleNo more con.man.
For a long time now, my favorite recipe for intranet/internet content management included an ounce of ssh, a tsp of rsync and pound of shell scripting to spoon feed the user – a dish that I call...
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NFS vs iSCSI
Although this paper on performance comparison’s of NFS and iSCSI is about a year old, it should give the average reader (who is most probably a sysadmin looking for answers the above protocols)...
View Articlesnoop for linux
Having worked on SUN platform for a while, I have always complained that I do not have a snoop like utility for Linux. Little did I know that there is such a command, called tethereal that performed...
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translating spam
amazing what we find with language tools… From: 文美 [mailto:aisolfcaf@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 5:30 AM To: XXXXXX Subject: [*Suspected SPAM*]...
View ArticleHow badly do you want your email ?
Here’s what I was asked by a filtering solution.. Anti-Virus Message contains a virus that can be cleaned quarantine ? strip ? deny delivery ? clean ? slackoff ? Message contains a...
View ArticleI’d rather be a fly on that wall
I’d drop everything I am doing if I can be a fly on the wall during this dinner. Jonathan Schwartz has just invited [tag]Linus Torvalds[/tag] to his house for dinner and even offered to cook. BTW, does...
View ArticleWould DTrace make sense on ONTAP ?
DTrace is meant for sysadmins (and developers, so they say, as if I am going to give them my root role) and service personnel who want to interrogate the system to better understand the OS behavior and...
View ArticleData Center Consolidation – the wrong way
Bandwidth of station wagon on New Jersey Turnpike fails real-life test Loading up servers on a truck and transporting on I-95 is certainly not the most “IT” way of data center consolidation. It is not...
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Create an installable search plugin for your blog
An installable search engine is a search function on a site that can be accessed directly from the browser without visiting the website itself. The search engine is formatted using the opensearch...
View ArticleLog file locations in NetApp Data ONTAP
The following list outlines the various log files and their locations used by Data ONTAP. In addition, ONTAP also uses syslogd daemon to log system messages (and uses the config file /etc/syslog.conf)...
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