1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all, I have the folowing question: I have an E450 with Solaris 2.6 running in a cluster environment. The primary node runs Oracle 8.1.5. My problem is: every time the Oracle Database is shutdown, the "w"colum in vmstat command jumps to "30". In man page for vmstat command, the "w" colum... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ok what is BSD exactly? I know its a type of open source but what is it exactly? (1 Reply)

3. Programming

Hello. I'm a complete newbie to C programming. I have a C program that wasn't written by me where I need to write some wrappers around it to automate and make it easier for a client to use. The problem is that the program accepts standard input to control the program... I'm hoping to find a simple... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am doing ls -la in the out put , first line is as total 41621 What is this total? (2 Replies)

5. HP-UX

if I have a two CPU when I run vmstat command to check cpu usage it only one row procs memory page faults cpu r b w avm free re at pi po fr de sr in sy cs us sy id 1 ... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, guys, I'm a new comer here. I'm studying Unix Shell and I met a problem confusing me a lot. Here it is : script 1: #!/bin/sh # scriptname : do_increment increment(){ sum=`expr $1 + 1` return $sum # Return the value of sum to the script. } echo -n "The sum is " increment $1 # Call... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey , another question is below: Administrator@fe038390aa60482 ~/Frank/20130509 $ c=`ls -ls` Administrator@fe038390aa60482 ~/Frank/20130509 $ echo $c Total 4 1 -rwxr--r-- 1 Administrator None 482 May 9 11:07 do_increment 1 -rwxr --r-- 1 Administrator None 272 May 9 11:32 do_square 1... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

RHEL 5.4 Our Linux machine seemed to be running slow. So, I ran the top and vmstat commands. Question1. I can see the process 11517 consuming 100% CPU . But that just means that this process totally utilizes one of the cores in a mult-core CPU. Right ? This machine apparently has two... (2 Replies)

9. Red Hat

Cheers! In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not? To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)

10. AIX

On our prod system we found sometime runqueue goes back to 0 as below. Whereas on test server even with very very less work the r-queue never dropped to 0. Under what conditions r-queue drops to 0? Does it mean something unusual? EG: kthr memory page faults ... (1 Reply)