Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial (LSST) v2.0 A Beginners Handbook for New Linux Users / Sys Admins and School Students Studying Linux or Computer Science.
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9726. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Have you ever wondered why you get the errors Execute permission denied or The parameter list is too long? These are just a few of the common errors UNIX and Linux novices receive that they may not know how to avoid. This article explains such errors and provides workarounds and resolutions to these and other errors that may crop up.
mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 8.10 server.
Splunk is a popular Linux web application that gives IT administrators a birds-eye view of their log files, or more appropriately, a bees-eye view. Not only will it index and chart log file events in a beautifully rendered web format, but it also allows a
Similar in concept to group policies in Active Directory, Mac OS X Server's managed preferences allow administrators to define virtually the entire user experience and restrict user access to many types of local and remote resources. These include applica