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How to configure Proxy Settings for the Unix / Linux Console

You can use the following methods to configure your console to use a proxy server so that console based programs like wget could get connect to the internet through the proxy. 1 – Set the environment variable # export http_proxy=http://DOMAIN\USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER:PORT/ # export ftp_proxy=http://DOMAIN\USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER:PORT/ In the above configuration you can ommit the DOMAIN\USERNAME:PASSWORD@ part if you …

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How to Unzip Multiple Files from Linux / Unix single Command Line

  bash-3.2# ls *.zip 118666-47.zip  120830-06.zip  138852-01.zip  142394-01.zip  147217-02.zip 118777-16.zip  120849-04.zip  139520-02.zip  142933-05.zip  148027-03.zip 119081-25.zip  124204-04.zip  142240-01.zip  143506-06.zip 119963-24.zip  126425-01.zip  142251-02.zip  146470-08.zip bash-3.2# bash-3.2# Problem : bash-3.2# unzip *.zip Archive:  118666-47.zip caution: filename not matched:  118777-16.zip caution: filename not matched:  119081-25.zip caution: filename not matched:  119963-24.zip caution: filename not matched:  120830-06.zip caution: filename not matched:  …

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Delete Files Older Than x Days on Linux / Unix

The find utility on linux allows you to pass in a bunch of interesting arguments, including one to execute another command on each file. We’ll use this in order to figure out what files are older than a certain number of days, and then use the rm command to delete them. Command Syntax find /path/to/files* -mtime …

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Tuning the Unix Operating System and Platform

This chapter discusses tuning the operating system (OS) for optimum performance. It discusses the following topics: Server Scaling Solaris 10 Platform-Specific Tuning Information Tuning for the Solaris OS Tuning for Solaris on x86 Tuning for Linux platforms Tuning UltraSPARC CMT-Based Systems Server Scaling This section provides recommendations for optimal performance scaling server for the following …

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Operating System Tuning for Oracle Database

This chapter describes how to tune Oracle Database. It contains the following sections: Importance of Tuning Operating System Tools Tuning Memory Management Tuning Disk I/O Monitoring Disk Performance System Global Area Tuning the Operating System Buffer Cache 1.1 Importance of Tuning Oracle Database is a highly optimizable software product. Frequent tuning optimizes system performance and …

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How to mount remote windows partition / windows share under Linux ?

NAME mount.cifs – mount using the Common Internet File System (CIFS) SYNOPSIS mount.cifs {service} {mount-point} [-ooptions] DESCRIPTION This tool is part of the samba(7) suite. mount.cifs  mounts  a Linux CIFS filesystem. It is usually invoked indirectly by the mount(8) command when using the “-t cifs” option. This command only works in Linux, and the kernel …

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How to add a repository manually in RHEL6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) repository configurations. yum looks at /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo for enabled repository. Create a file IntraNet.repo: [IntraNet] name=Local Network Repository for RHEL6 $releasever – $basearch baseurl=ftp://x.x.x.x/RHEL6-GA-x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 Save and close the file. [IntraNet]: Repository name i.e. The [IntraNet] section must exist for yum to do anything. name=Local Repository for RHEL6 $releasever …

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