Archive for the ‘Unix’ Category
Managing SyncPlans from the PresSTORE CLI
PresSTORE has a Synchronize module, that can be used to copy data from one location to another. This is done by the use of synchronization plans, or sync plans for short. Each plan is given a name and has a number of attributes associated with it, such as whether it is enabled or disabled. PresSTORE [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac Security, Unix · Tagged with: Command line, mirror, Podcast Producer, Presstore, sync plan, synchronization plan, syncplan, Xsan
Setting up CHAP on LeftHand w/ CLI
LeftHand Storage uses the cliq command line for configuring their devices. cliq isn’t necessarily interactive and so we end up needing to specify the username, password and IP of the device with each command (although you can setup a key as well if you’re going to be doing automated tasks). One task that I’ve found [...]
In: Unix, Windows Server, Xsan · Tagged with: admin, assignvolumechap, chap, CLI, cliq, Command line, deletevolume, getLocalVolumes, lefthand, modifyraid, modifyvolume, Password, username, volume
Resetting a WordPress Password
Sometimes you can bite yourself a little when you experiment around with things. I installed a security plug-in and the next thing you know I couldn’t log into my own website. Ouch. Not a huge deal as it actually led to experimentation with the MySQL tables for WordPress, which oddly enough, I’ve typically just left [...]
In: Unix, WordPress · Tagged with: Linux, MySQL, reset password, set, update, WordPress
Goodbye OpenSolaris/OpenStorage, Hello OpenFiler/OpenDedup
I’ve read a number of reports over the past couple of days that indicate the demise of Project Wonderland and Open Solaris. As it is open source I would not be surprised to see the project continue, even if forked and retitled in some way. Oracle will continue selling Solaris, but “nothing is for free” [...]
In: Ubuntu, Unix, VMware · Tagged with: FOSS, opendedup, OpenSolaris, openstorage, Solaris
SCALE 8
The 8th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is being held at the Westin by LAX in Los Angeles this weekend. It starts today (so I should have posted this sooner) and sports sessions on open source topics ranging from Zenoss to Sugar to Fedora. For more on the schedule check out the conference schedule [...]
In: Unix · Tagged with: Linux, open source, SCALE, southern california linux expo
Uniq Logs
Recently I’ve been looking at a lot of log files. And sorting through them can be a bit of a pain. However, there are some tools out there to help make this process a bit easier. The first of these is sort. If I have a log that has 1,000 lines, while I like to [...]
In: Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Unix, Xsan · Tagged with: Command line, cvlog, grep, Mac OS X, script, sort, uniq, Xsan
Days of our Oracle: Sun
McNealy no longer has an executives page on Oracle.com. He also sent To be honest, this is not a note this founder wants to write. Sun, in my mind, should have been the great and surviving consolidator. But I love the market economy and capitalism more than I love my company. In other words, for [...]
In: Business, Unix · Tagged with: Jonathan Schwartz, Oracle, Scott McNealy, Sun
Using the cut Command
A number of commands available for finding positions that you want in a line and extracting only a certain amount of text can be pretty cumbersome in terms of learning curve. This isn’t to say that once you get the hang of them that they’re terribly complicated but it can take a little while to [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Unix · Tagged with: awk, character position, cut, find data, grep, line match, Mac OS X, pattern match, regex, sed
Monitoring Amazon ec2 Instances
InterMapper has a solution for monitoring instances of the popular Amazon cloud solution, ec2. Using InterMapper’s Cloud Monitor, you can monitor up to 5 virtual machines that are running for free. If you are just getting started and find that you would like some visibility into the performance of your ec2 instances then this solution [...]
In: Ubuntu, Unix, VMware · Tagged with: cloud monitor, cloud watch, intermapper
Lots of new stuff: Command Line Wiki Integration
The Mac Commands page and the PowerShell Commands page are both now wikis and users with accounts on this site can edit them. Additionally I added a number of new pages worth of commands, FTP Commands, Windows Commands, Final Cut Server Commands, Amazon S3 Commands, Podcast Producer Commands and Xsan Commands; both of which are wikis [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Mass Deployment, Unix, Windows Server, Windows XP, Xsan · Tagged with: Command line, Mac OS X, powershell, scripting, windows, xsan commands


