From time to time you may need to clean up your system as disk space runs low. Realistically you should look at setting up syslog to handle areas of your disk that might be prone to blowout usage but if you haven’t then the following commands may be of use.
If you want to modify the skip forward and backwards time when playing videos create or upload a file called advancedsettings.xml to /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata
In order to log data from a remote machine to a central server you will need to perform the following to the central server.
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This is a bit fiddly but I was in the following situation.
I had a bootable 4GB USB drive running Oracle Unbreakable Linux installation. It was installed on an LVM parition on the USB drive.
Now it came time to move this to an 8G drive which was achieved with the command
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb conv=notrunc
Where the original 4G drive was /dev/sda and the replacement 8G drive was /dev/sdb.
All good so far. Now however how do I extend the LVM parition to use this new space. Here is where some hoop jumping comes in.
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Below is a basic summary of the commands required to install a ntp daemon onto your server to keep track of time.
If you want your daemons to start and stop with your Redhat system as it boots chkconfig is what you were looking for.
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I used to use some software called Ghost for imaging windows machines. Then it was brought by Norton and got a bit bloated.
Here is the latest contender which is free for personal use
http://www.xxclone.com/
Heaps more here with Kleo looking promising
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_cloning_software
This looks good too
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
A store of useful commands as I find them
displays the memory usage of running processes
prstat
List active processes (generally useful only with a grep)
ps -ef
Display physical memory size on server
prtconf|grep -i mem
Display swap size (do the math based on results of two commands)
pagesize
swap -l
Package installation
Get your version via ‘uname -a’ reference wikipedia if you dont know how to translate to Sun version.
Get packages from here
http://www.sunfreeware.com/
install with command
cd
gunzip packagename.gz
pkgadd -d packagename
The SMF or Service Management Facility handles the control of services within Solaris 10. Below are some common commands for a useful lookup.
The service FMRI is an identifier of each service and can be seen by running the list services commands below. The FMRI in all the commands below can be replaced with just the service name as long as there are no other services with similar names.
List all services
svcs
List all services including disabled services
svcs -a
View a service current status
svcs -H <service_FMRI>
I made the mistake of converting a few drives to dynamic disks. Never again!
I consistently got online errors and other random corruptions.
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