Archive for March, 2008

Sendmail hangs temporarily during startup

/etc/hosts missing the following:

127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain  localhost

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Create ISO image of DVD using dd command

dd – convert and copy a file
See man pages for explanation

Create copy of DVD to ISO:

[root@killer media]# dd if=/dev/dvd of=winxp.iso

Create a blank disk image:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/disk.img bs=1M count=4096

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Error reporting in aix

 errpt -a | more

       -a
            Displays information about errors in the error log file in detailed format. If used in conjunction with the -t flag, all the information from the template
            file is displayed.

See man pages for the other flags.

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