(1) Click on System – Administration – Logical Volume Manager. (2) Expand Uninitilized Entities on the left window by clicking on the arrow next to it. You will now see the available physical disk partitions if there is any. For…
How to change the shell in Linux or Unix.
Linux and Unix have a vairety of shells. A shell is a program that provides the text interface, it reads the interactive or non interactive commands, interprets and executes the instructions. Depending on your version of Linux or Unix, a…
Errors regarding libXp.so.6 in linux
I received errors regarding libXp.so.6 launching the Fame 9.3 release 3 on Redhat Enterprise Linux 5. Error while loading shared library libXp.so.6 Cannot open shared object file. No such file or directory. This error occurs because the library libXp.so.6 is…
TOP and TOPAZ are Unix, Linux and AIX utilities that provides real time display of top cpu using processes.
As a server/systems administrator you will find the TOP utility very useful to determine top cpu using processes. TOP is the utility for Linux and most Unix operating systems. IBM Aix has it’s own version which does the same job,…
How to remove the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification.
I ran the windows update on my XP computer, it downloaded and installed KB905474. This instaled the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification on my Windows XP computer. Now eveyrtime after I reboot my computer the warning message keeps popping up in…
Determine the disk usage of a file system in Linux or Unix.
As a server administrator you will find that the df commad is very useful to find out the disk usage of a file system in Unix or Linux. Depending on the variant of Linux or Unix, the df command also…