Another quikie copy/paste kind of thingy…
You may set your search path automatically each time you log in, by placing the appropriate “set path” command in your “.login” file. (To learn more about the .login file, type “help dotlogin”.) Here is a sample of a command line that you might put in your .login file to set a non-standard search path:
set path = ( $PATH /usr/ucb /bin /usr/bin /usr/new .)
Top equivalent for AIX - Topas, Only Better… That’s what I searched when I got a ticket from one of the AIX boxes here complaining about CPU being 99% used up.
Of course, you can use vmstat with interval, but for those sysadmin folks who are use to using Top, its still more comfortable using (and seeing) the top output.
Topas is the equivalent of Top for AIX.. it’s better than Top as a matter of fact according to some AIX gurus (and Solaris)
If you persists in using top, You’ll have to build it yourself from the sources at http://www.unixtop.org/ plus probably this fix:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=934590&group_id=72892&atid=536044
Good luck!
Special thanks to Kristy Westphal
There are several checklists on the Internet to help you lock down an out-of-the-box installation of Solaris. But, if you have followed any of them, you know how time consuming they can be, especially for a large enterprise. The Solaris community, however, is in luck when it comes to system hardening because a few forward-thinking Sun engineers have built some tools that can help to automate this procedure. In this article, I will discuss two such tools, TITAN and JASS.
Default Installations
Over time, Solaris has improved its default security settings in some areas. However, it still needs additional hardening to secure some default settings. Areas that are fairly loose by default include:
wpv991242765100.exe - What is it? You may be wondering what this filename or process is when you try and searching for any malicious application running in you Windows XP/VIsta machine.. (via Task manager).
wpv991242765100.exe’s could be viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, worms, information stealers, keyloggers, bots… I for one is not sure, but I also have this process running in my windows machine and I just discovered that this is the culprit on some of my computer problems.
Problems Caused by wpv991242765100.exe
To list a few of the nuances that this process is doing on my Viao laptop *grin*:
My Favorite One-Liners: Some Useful Shell Programs… But first things first… I would like to note that this aint my list of favorite shell programs.. well, it has become… but what I mean is this aint an original article that I created and posted here.. this is a section from the now defunt, Sysadmin Magazine… and you’ll be reading a lot of those here….
“Keep It Simple, SysAdmin,” or perhaps just “Keep It Shell Script”, that is one of the motto that every sysdamin knows… They automate, they script, they relax.
Too many system administrators, especially former or frustrated programmers, get involved and distracted creating ad hoc programs that grow until they have a life and a following of their own. These programs generally are written in C, awk, or C shell, have no documentation, and are incomprehensible, even to the author, less than two weeks after being finished.
There’s a new player in town for the search engine business. Nope, not that ‘Google killer search engine‘ called Cuil (aint that defunct yet?) The new search engine that’s making a buzz in the world wide internet is called Wolfram Alpha.
I first read and heard about this from a collegue who writes on review ninja and most of the info you’ll read about Wolfram alpha search engine here are borrowed from TechCrunch and other Wolfram Alpha wikis.
What can I say, this is the season most System Administrators slash couch potato guys love! This is the season where most of the TV series show their most exciting season ender! This is the perfect time for us hardworking sysadins (naks) to relax a little and enjoy and hour (or two) of nice old television!
Last time I mentioned here is the season finale of LOST, this time we’ll watch PRison Break Season Finale.
I have been a fan of Prison Break for a long period of time, watching it every week, either a rerun or in online stream… The first season, as I remember, was very good! Pretty exciting! The way the plan was lay down and executed! I want the McGyver kind of theme to it… Michael Scoffiled was a character most boys would want to be.
I just want to share a link for those who are not subscribe to the official Sun Microsystems’ email newletter.. (what?! You’re not subscribed?!)
Anyway, the link will forward you to a form where you need to fill up some personal information (it’s from Sun, so there will be no selling of email or spamming there). Once you’re done with that, go read and study Solaris Virturalization!
Enjoy!
Just want to note here steps on how to setup your own custom name server from your registrar. In my case, I had to do it on GoDaddy. But of course there are tons of webpages out there that explains how to do it in different registrar.. on this post I just took the part where they enumerate procedures for GoDaddy.
Time for the sysadmin to relax this Wednesday night! And what better way to relax than to watch the season ender of the greatest TV series on earth, LOST.
Watch LOST EPisode 15 The Incident Online Streaming Video on May 13, 2009! This will be one great episode since this is the first part! It most likely that the cliffhanger will be a killer!
Season 5, Episode 16 – Aired: 5/13/2009
The Incident (1)
Jack’s decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him. Locke assigns Ben a difficult task.
I will be downloading the season ender of lost as soon as it becomes available on EZTV torrent.. If I have time, I will convert this to some other format (Mp4 or something) and upload it to yutube or make it available for streaming..
Stay Tuned!
