How do I Ignore Case in VIM ?
Within VIM to ignore case the following is used, :set ic To revert back to case-sensitive searches use, :set noic
UNIX
UNIX – What is a sticky bit ?
History The sticky bit was first introduced in 1974 within the UNIX operating system. Its purpose was to instruct the operating system to place the process into swap once completed. Thus reducing the startup time of the process during further executions. However nowdays this usage is obsolete. Usage Instead, the sticky bit is now set … Read more
VIM: Set the Width of a Single TAB to 4 Spaces Wide
In this extremely short article we will provide you with the steps required to make the width of a single TAB only 4 spaces wide. This especially useful when using Visual Mode within VIM , in that you can indent large portions of text. Steps Within your ~/.vimrc file add the following lines. set shiftwidth=4 … Read more
SCP File Transfer Fails but No Error Message is Shown
Issue When using scp to copy a file the file fails to transfer, however there is no error message. Solution This issue can occur due echo commands within your .bashrc and how the scp program handles the output from these commands. This is a known bug within scp which can be viewed here. To resolve this … Read more
How do I tab multiple lines within VI ?
Within this article we will looking at the steps required to tab multiple lines within VI.This feature is great for ensuring readability, when editing indent based languages such as Python or just programming in general. Steps Press “<SHIFT> + v” to enter VISUAL LINE mode. Select the text you wish to indent but using either … Read more
Solaris BART (Basic Auditing and Reporting Tool)
BART (Basic Auditing and Reporting Tool) provides the ability to determine file-level changes at a granular level within the Solaris 10 operating system. This is achieved via the creation of 2 manifest files (a control-manifest and test-manifest), each manifest catalogs the attributes of each file and then a comparison is run between the files and … Read more
Compiling Rancid on an x86 Solaris 10 platform
Below shows you the steps in order to compile Rancid on an x86 Solaris 10 platform. RANCID monitors a router’s (or more generally a device’s) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS or Subversion to maintain history of changes. Space on /var If you havent much space on /var run … Read more
Solaris 10 x86 – Error compiling from source
When compiling from source you may see the following errors occur : /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:259: error: parse error before “ctid_t” /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:292: error: parse error before ‘}’ token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:294: error: parse error before ‘}’ token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:390: error: parse error before “ctid_t” /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:392: error: conflicting types for `__proc’ /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:261: error: previous declaration of `__proc’ /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:398: error: conflicting … Read more
Solaris Compile configure: error: no acceptable grep could be found in
When compiling programs in Solaris you may find you recieve the following error (or something along the same lines) complaining about grep. checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… ./configure: line 3859: 13085 Killed “$ac_path_GREP” -e ‘GREP$’ -e ‘-(cannot match)-‘ <“conftest.nl” >”conftest.out” 2>/dev/null ./configure: line 3859: 13092 Killed “$ac_path_GREP” -e ‘GREP$’ -e ‘-(cannot … Read more
Solaris GCC Failure: errno 28, No space left on device
When trying to install the gcc package on Solaris you may find you get the following error : cpio: Cannot write “reloc/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.3.2/cc1obj”, errno 28, No space left on device cpio: Cannot write “reloc/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.3.2/cc1plus”, errno 28, No space left on device cpio: Cannot write “reloc/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.3.2/collect2”, errno 28, No space left on device cpio: Cannot write “reloc/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.3.2/f771”, … Read more
How to install SSH on Solaris 10 x86
This guide will show you how to install SSH on Solaris 10 x86 from the Solaris installation DVD. Mount CD If you havent enabled the feature that will automatically mount your CDROM drive you will need to mount it using the following commands : mkdir /cdrom Find the name of your cdrom -bash-3.00# iostat -En … Read more
Solaris Upgrade Export “Error: Failed to execute ‘gtar -c -C”
When running an upgrade_export on a Solaris Smart Centre you may receive the following error : Compressing the files… gtar: Only wrote 2047 of 10240 bytes to export.tgz.tar gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Error: Failed to execute ‘gtar -c -C “/opt/CPsuite-R65/fw1/tmp/upgrade_temp_dir” -f “export.tgz.tar” .’ command [ 26409 1]@#######[10 May 15:35:27] Compress: … Read more
VI shows the error Terminal too wide within Solaris
You may receive the following error when using VI within Solaris, Terminal too wide To resolve this increase the number of columns with the command stty columns 120
Unix Mount Commands
Samba mount -t cifs //[Windows IP]/[Share] /root/folder/ -o user=[username],pass=[password],nocase BSD mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f discimg.iso` /cdrom Solaris mkdir -p /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom ; mount -F hsfs -o ro `ls -al /dev/sr* | awk ‘{print “/dev/” $1 1}’` /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom
Solaris Files and Prompts
Solaris is a UNIX based (BSD derivative) operating system. Nativity based on Sun (SPARC) hardware, Solaris allows for high performance due to its lightweight and minimal design. Basic Configuration /etc/inittab – sets run-level (default 3, runs scripts under S, 2 and 3) /etc/init.d/ – boot scripts /etc/rc?.d/S* – links to scripts to be run on … Read more
Basic Regular Expressions (UNIX)
Basic Regular Expressions ^abc BOL abc at the beginning of the line abc$ EOL abc at the end of the line A* Any amount of characters matches any sqec or more of A`s i.e A, AAAAAA, AA, AAAAAAAAAA . Any 1 Character Any Character .* Any Characters Any Characters a[a-z0-9]c Range Between a and c … Read more
Google Advanced Search Operators
“google example” phrase Pages containing the exact phrase “google example” example -word exclude Pages containing the word example but not the word “word” example site:www.example.com site Pages containing example within website www.example.com ~example similar Pages containing words similar to example example filetype:ppt filetype Documents containing the word example and are ppt extenstions example|google either Pages … Read more
A Look into Tcpdump
Tcpdump is a packet capture for the Linux command line. This is by no means a full guide but a quick overview of some of the main commands. The syntax below will capture all traffic with IP address of 172.16.1.1 and and IP in the network 172.16.1.0/24 with a port of udp/53. This will write … Read more
UNIX – Tcpdump
Tcpdump is a packet capture for the Linux command line. This is by no means a full guide but a quick overview of some of the main commands. The syntax below will capture all traffic with IP address of 172.16.1.1 and and IP in the network 172.16.1.0/24 with a port of udp/53. This will write … Read more
UNIX – How do I grep for a TAB space ?
In order to grep for a TAB you would need to you use the following syntax, [root@Linux~]# grep $’\t’ file.txt
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