UNIX System Admnistration Home Page

You will find useful UNIX System Administration tricks as well as functional Korn Shell Scripts that are used in production environment.  Please use them as your discretion.  The author assumes no liability as a result from using these scripts to your production environment.  These pages are updated periodically.  Thanks for stopping by.

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Solaris System Admnistration

How to mount the cdrom remotely thru NFS
How to prevent users from login to your system remotely
How to restore the root password in the event your SA quit and changed the root password
 
 
 
 

Korn Shell Scripts

readme1st                Readme file
monitor script           Monitors a pid and respawn it in the event it terminates abnormarlly.
cpio.sh                     Performs a level 0 backup using the cpio command.
fulldump                    Performs a level 0 backup using the ufsdump/vxdump command.
whatday                   Test a case statement on what day is it on your unix server/workstation.
ckfile                        Checks if the file exist and remove/move it.
getftp                       Script that automatically uses the ftp command.  Used in the crontab entry.
rotatelog                  Script that rotate log files.
startup                     Startup script
 
 
 

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