Tech@Sakana – A sysadmin’s blog

One of the features of bash I’ve too long overlooked is its history expansion. In this post I’ll show a few examples to get a grip at it.
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If you’re looking for CPU usage statistics and system performance on IBM AIX, sar might just be the tool your looking for. It’ll display information for 5 minutes intervals from midnight to current time. The output looks like this :
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When working as a systems administrator, you’ll always end up having to solve a file system full error in a hurry. Here are a few commands and hints to help you get out of it quickly on a UNIX like system.
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If there’s a file installed on your disk for which you’d like to know what package provided it, you can use the equery command like below :
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If you’ve got a VirtualBox VM already installed and you wish to clone/copy it, follow the steps below :
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