http://blog.sysadminupdates.com Linux technical support, Technical Blogs, Cheap dedicated server support, Cheap linux dedicated server support, Cheap windows dedicated server, Dedicated server support, Data center Operation, System Administration, Bash and perl scripts for server maintainance Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:14:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en gunzip filename.tar.gz and then tar -xvf filename.tar :) http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/18/tar-directory-checksum-error-solaris/ 1> Download and install the latest Solaris 10 Recommended Patch Cluster from http://sunsolve.sun.com #tar –xvf 10_Recommended.tar #cd 10_Recommended #./install_cluster· 2>Download and install Solaris Security Toolkit (JASS) 4.2 software from www.sun.com/software/security/jass/ Download SUNWjass-4[1].2.0.pkg.tar #tar –xvf ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/17/hardening-solaris-server/ I am assuming you are using a Redhat or Redhat-like distribution. Some of these packages can be grabbed via yum. However, I'm going to have you install them via RPM as you cannot get all of them via yum. If you are not, you will need to get the proper ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/16/setup-linux-vpn-server/ IEs4Linux is a small shell script that can be run via console on any Linux machine with Wine installed. As the title suggests, it allows you to quickly and easily install that most infamous of Microsoft products: Internet Explorer. The creator of IEs4Linux is Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior, a 21 year ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/16/install-ie-internet-explorer-on-linux/ Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions If you were paying attention, you noticed a huge loophole in the programs above: there's nothing to prevent you from typing in a string variable when you're supposed to be typing in a number. You can type in "dog" and "cat", and the program will try ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/15/perl-regular-expression-and-pattern-matching/ Filehandles You can write to a file as easily as you can write to the terminal. The first step (almost the only step) is to open the file with the open command. Here's an example: open(DOG,">/home/scotty/data/dogs"); DOG is the "filehandle"--the name by which you'll refer to the open file from ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/15/perl-file-handeling/ 1. find /path/to/start/from/ -type f | xargs perl -pi -e 's/applicationX/applicationY/g' 2. find . -type f -name '*.txt' -print | while read i do sed 's|applicationx|applicationy|g' $i > $i.tmp && mv $i.tmp $i done 3. find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Application/whatever/g' 4. To replace all instances of a string in a ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/15/find-files-and-replace-word-in-it-using-script/ Miscellaneous ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/15/command-and-system-information-on-different-unix-flavours/ yes,, if you are looking for some software to find out which folders on your drive utilizing too much space then ... Drivespacio is an excellent utility you can use to find those mystery files hiding somewhere on your harddrive. Remember, clean your harddrive with an excellent utility such ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/08/sotware-to-find-disk-space-utilized-in-windows-os/ # split -l 100 test test_ That will split the test file into different files with test_** name every file have 100 lines of test file. You can see below files after executing that command. # ls -la total 56 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 4 07:36 . drwxr-x--- 6 ... http://blog.sysadminupdates.com/2008/07/04/split-big-files-into-many-small-files/