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Interrogating Solaris hardware for installed CPU and memory resources

October 2, 2008 Leave a response Shortlink

There are times when working with a Solaris server that you need to know a little more about the hardware configuration. Knowing how much memory that you have and how many processors there are can be very useful to know [...]

Quickly surveying free disk space on UNIX and Linux

June 21, 2008 Leave a response Shortlink

Keeping an eye on disk space on a Solaris server is important for me at work while keeping the same top level overview is good for my use of Linux at home too. Luckily, there’s a simple command that delivers [...]

On numeric for loops in Korn shell scripting

October 18, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

The time hounoured syntax for a for loop in a UNIX script is what you see below and that is what works with the default shell in Sun’s Solaris UNIX operating system, ksh88. for i in 1 2 3 4 [...]

Trying out OpenSolaris

February 2, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

Having been programming (mostly in SAS as it happens) on Sun’s venerable Solaris operating system platform at work since the start of this year, the chance to try OpenSolaris x86 edition in a VMware virtual machine seemed a good opportunity [...]

VMware and ZoneAlarm

January 30, 2007 Leave a response Shortlink

Contrary to appearances given by this blog, I am not exclusively a Windows user. In fact, I have sampled Linux on a number of occasions in the past and I use VMware to host a number of different distributions – [...]