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This blog covers UNIX system administration HOWTO tips for using inline for loops, find command, UNIX scripting, configuration, SQL, various UNIX-based tools, and command line interface syntax. The UNIX OS supports tasks such as running hardware, device drivers, peripherals and third party applications.
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How to Exclude a Directory for TAR

I am doing a few aesthetic upgrades, so naturally I want to backup some of my website files. However, I do not want everything, i.e. transient files such images. I tarred up the website's primary directory but excluded its images sub-directory. Frankly speaking, I did not want to waste time and bandwidth downloading images. Here is the syntax to..

Posted on 5 February 2012 | 1:00 pm

Restore MySQL Database via Command Line

This is mostly a note to myself. It is not really a tip. Restoring a mysql database from the command line.[root@server]# ls -latotal 326940drwx------ 3 user1 usergrp 4096 Oct 29 12:10 .drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 4 05:22 ..-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 usergrp 1239136 Oct 29 12:10 mysql_db.sql[root@server]# pwd/backups..

Posted on 4 November 2011 | 11:07 am

Sun StorageTek 6140 Cache

We have a Sun StorageTek 6140 Array attached to a couple NAS heads. We share out its file systems from the NAS. But it seemed the NAS was creating bottlenecks and hanging NFS. As usual, it turned out to be something else.We observed slowness during high or bursty I/O operations. Short story...It was the 6140's cache. Make sure your cache batteries..

Posted on 29 October 2011 | 5:27 pm

HTML Symbol Entities issue on Blogger

I have received a few requests on how to deal with the HTML Symbol Entities issue on Blogger. There really isn't a problem because you can just click the box below for your post and your character(s) will display correctly.ERROR Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is broken: xxxxx Stop showing HTML errors for the body of this postHowever, here are ..

Posted on 18 June 2011 | 4:26 am

Log an FTP Session with a Filter

A couple colleagues and I were looking for an effective way to tersely log the activities of an FTP effort. All we wanted was the file name and throughput rate. If you are Ftping hundreds or thousands of files, the first one (below) could be quite verbose, especially if you have a security banner notice. Here are a couple ideas that we considered...

Posted on 18 June 2011 | 3:05 am