Shut down system in Solaris
To power down the system in solaris and have the machine turn off completely one can use the “poweroff” command. This is similar to “shutdown […]
How to force kill a process in linux
You may occasionally need to kill a process in linux. The “kill” command in linux will do the job well. Combine kill with the “ps” […]
Force install using CPAN
CPAN is a powerful archive of Perl modules tools. It contains many modules to do just about anything one would want to do in Perl. […]
Show User Jobs in SGE
When using the Sun Grid Engine (SGE) it is useful to see a user’s specific jobs rather than seeing all jobs that are currently queued […]
Ports Required for Dell Remote Access Card
The Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) is a fantastic tool for getting remove keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) over the network. You can do many […]
zfs share not showing up after snapshot
On occasion when you perform a zfs snapshot to another host the share may not always show up as mounted, although a “zfs list” will […]
ZFS sharenfs to multiple subnets
It is possible to set the sharenfs attribute in solaris zfs to share out to multiple subnets. The syntax must be correct though. Below is […]
Sync time manually using ntp
On occasion you may need to correct the system time manually instead of NTP correcting it over time. To sync the time manually on linux […]
Solaris NFS mount using TCP
On occasion it may be useful to mount an NFS share via TCP. Typically when there are some interface differences such as speed, configuration etc. […]
Tips for using the Amazon Cloud
Here are some useful tips to keep in mind when using the amazon cloud: 1) Try to utilize Elastic Block Storage (EBS) when possible. It […]