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Monitoring and Tracing Unix Processes

Overview This article is intended for use by any Unix/DBA Administrator who needs to monitor trace information from a UNIX process. For a more detailed look at the "truss" command using Sun Solaris, check out: (Using the "truss" command in Solaris) How to Trace Unix System Calls for a Process…

admin July 10, 2008process, unixNo Comments

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Timing Read and Write Functions in UNIX

The following syntax can be used to time how well write activities are occuring on a set of file systems (drives). In this test, I will create a 1GB file and time it:

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Is Linux Unix?

Officially an operating system is not allowed to be called a Unix until it passes the Open Group's certification tests, and supports the necessary API's. Nobody has yet stepped forward to pay the large fees that certification involves, so we're not allowed to call it Unix. Certification really doesn't mean…

admin July 9, 2008linux, unixNo Comments