Monthly Archives: August 2011

Solaris OS Processes

Every program you run in the Solaris OS creates a process. When you log in and start the shell, you start a process. When you perform a command or when you open an application, you start a process. The system … Continue reading

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Searching for Files and Directories Using the find command

The find command recursively descends the directory tree in the path name list, looking for the files that match the search criteria. As the find command locates the files that match those criteria, the path to each file is displayed … Continue reading

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Searching for Content in Files Using the fgrep

You can use the fgrep command to search a file for a literal string or a group of characters. The fgrep command reads all regular expression characters literally. Regular expression metacharacters have no special meaning to the fgrep command, for … Continue reading

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Searching for Content in Files Using the egrep

The egrep command searches the contents of one or more files for a pattern using extended regular expression metacharacters. Extended regular expression metacharacters include the regular expression metacharacters that the grep command uses, plus some additional metacharacters. The table describes … Continue reading

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Searching for Content in Files Using grep

The term grep means to globally search for a regular expression and print all lines containing it. When you use the grep command every line containing a specified character pattern prints to the screen. Using the grep command does not … Continue reading

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STEPS TO CREATE UNPROTECTED STANDARD DEVICES DMX / SYMMETRIX

1      Verify the free space available in MBs SUN1#symconfigure   -sid  277  list  -freespace –unit MB Now the free space in SYMM 277 is displayed in MBs example 1278888 MB 2      Verify any configuration sessions are running SUN1#symconfigure   -sid  277 verify … Continue reading

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STEPS TO CREATE BCV DEVICES DMX / SYMMETRIX

1       Verify the free space available in MBs SUN1#symconfigure   -sid  277  list  -freespace –unit MB Now the free space in SYMM 277 is displayed in MBs example 1278888 MB 2      Verify any configuration sessions are running SUN1#symconfigure   -sid  277 verify … Continue reading

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STEPS TO CREATE STANDARD DEVICES WITH TWO WAY PROTECTION

Verify the free space available in MBs SUN1#symconfigure   -sid  277  list  -freespace –unit MB now the free space in SYMM 277 is displayed in MBs example 1278888 MB verify any configuration sessions are running SUN1#symconfigure   -sid  277 verify it verifies … Continue reading

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LUN / METAVOLUME CREATION AND MAPPING DMX / SYMMETRIX

Physical discs are not visible to hosts.   Logical volumes can be created from physical discs and they are called “hyper volume extension”.   256 hypers can be created on a physical disc.   Every hyper has its own personality. … Continue reading

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How to Reset Forgotten MySQL Root Password

First things first. Log in as root and stop the mysql daemon. Now lets start up the mysql daemon and skip the grant tables which store the passwords. #mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables You should see mysqld start up successfully. If not, well … Continue reading

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