Find IP of a host as a non root user in Solaris
Non privileged users in Solaris do not have the ability to perform “ping”, or “host”, or even “dig” to find the IP of a host […]
Month: April 2011
Add a column after a column in MySQL
To add a column after a column in MySQL you can perform the following command: This will alter table “testtable” and add a new column […]
Extended ACLs in Solaris
The ZFS file system in Solaris supports extended ACLs which an administrator can use for managing user and group control. One can control these extended […]
Getting Detailed Hard Drive Information Using hdparm
hdparm is a command in Linux that can provide you with a great deal of information about a hard drive. It is commonly used when […]
Write GRUB Onto A Disk that Needs It
On occasion you may find that your disk does not have GRUB installed. Such reasons could be mbr errors or misconfiguration, software raid issues, or […]
Allow NFS mounts on Pool Share in Solaris
The minimum that is required to allow nfs mounts on a share within a pool in Solaris is to set the “sharenfs” parameter on your […]
Change Repository Path in SVN
On occasion you will need to migrate your svn repository to another server, or another path. Checked out svn repositories have a path associated with […]
Using iozone to benchmark disk io
We downloaded the iozone source code, and now we need to compile it. One can see the supported architectures by typing “make”. [root@computer current]# make […]
Fast file transfers using socat
Socat is a powerful file transfer tool. It reduced the overhead of other transfer protocols and can come in considerably handy when transferring files over […]
Specify multiple php include paths for different sites
In apache there is an easy way you can specify different php include paths. A good way to do it is to specify it in […]