Recently I needed to find out who is connecting to an Oracle database and at the same time I wanted...

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I previously wrote a quick post on using a connection manager in Linux. Link here:
http://blog.ls-a...

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Mostly serving web pages you have the capability to do dynamic scripting since it is done on the sam...

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I have written a couple articles about this here http://blog.ls-al.com/ubuntu-on-a-zfs-root-file-sys...

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Most of you will know that Ubuntu 16.04 will have ZFS merged into the kernel. Despite licensing argu...

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I have been running pfsense on an Alix tiny computer for a long time. Pretty much have not touched i...

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I recently experimented a little with Linux for SPARC(more here https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linu...

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Since btrfs has send and receive capabilities I took a look at it. The title is replication but if y...

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Sometimes you have to rely on a routine to reliably provide dates. In this example I want to know fo...

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This is an update post. Previously I had a post here: http://blog.ls-al.com/check-logfiles-for-recen...

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From time to time we notice that some LUN's are not optimal. It could be because of off-lining a LUN...

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If you find yourself trying to figure out where your operating system is spending time with reads an...

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There are several ways to get this done but I found using curl gives a good quick test of how long a...

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I like to work in a tabbed SSH connection manager. Especially when I have hundred's or thousands of...

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I typically prefer using Nagios for network monitoring. Nagios itself is tricky to get going on Sola...

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