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This is a rather contested topic within the community; here's my 2 cents:

Certifications are good for one purpose only- sometimes getting through HR hurdles when trying to get a job. Beyond that,...

I've had a very good experience with the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel per module; documentation is at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel/lib/Spreadsheet/WriteExcel.pm

It seems like...

Not sure about Tru64; I've done things like 'passwd -sa' (as root) in Solaris...

- John

I don't particularly suggest doing it this way due to how find is I/O and CPU intensive, but you could always do something like

if [[ -n $(find / -name core) ]]; then echo "core file found" | mail...

Check your man pages for the modified time:

-c Uses time of last modification of the i-node (file
created, mode changed, and so forth) for sorting
(-t)...

Flip387,

I am not aware of any way to run a windows batch file on a UNIX machine, and I fully expect there is not a way to do it on multiple OS's. I'm told that Sun makes a product called WABI...

Hello Irasela,

Can you please provide some more specific information:
1) What operating system are you working with-- password settings vary greatly between OS's
2) Can you give an example of...

Hitori,

Not sure of the specific tool, but I would think there is something other than tcpdump that you could use to tie network utilization to processes, which you could then tie back to the...

It seems to me that you could possibly leverage a router for this purpose instead? What kind of statistics?

- John

So if I understand it, you might have a file like this:
--- filename ---
file1 10
file2 20
file3 30
file4 40
---------------

Say I want to get the word count of each file and print next to...

Hello Nene,

This is interesting... it worked ok for me. SIGSTOP is a signal that is universally applicable as well- whatever process you are running it against can't be caught or ignored. I...

Not sure if I understand exactly what you're trying to do, but it seems like you could do something in a script and set up cron?

~$ date
Wed Aug 16 20:11:38 EDT 2006#!/bin/ksh
# Ex:...

Not sure if this helps at all, but we use the Parse::Syslog perl module to normalize everything that comes in; we then load it into a database for referencing (Postgres, but any database should...

Disclaimer: I don't have any specific experience with fbackup

1. This should backup all locally mounted filesystems as opposed to an image (like an ISO, mksysb, flash archive, etc). From...

From the source manpage, they seem to be equivalent:

. filename [arguments]
source filename [arguments]
Read and execute commands from filename in the current...

Hello Hitori,

What are you exactly trying to do.. what is the higher-level objective?

- John