by Ramesh Natarajan on May 27, 2010
It’s been exactly two years since I wrote my first post on this blog. On the 2nd happy birthday of this blog, I would like to thank all of the regular readers of this blog for the support you’ve given me so far. You’ve been a huge part of this blog’s growth.
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by Balakrishnan Mariyappan on May 26, 2010
Perl eval built-in function is very powerful. In this article let us review how to use regex in eval, trapping errors using eval, create dynamic code using eval, insert a code from a file/sub-routine using eval etc.,
The general form of perl eval expects a expression or a block of code as an argument.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on May 24, 2010
Alfresco is the best open source content management system. This has a rock solid document management foundation, with several functionality built on top of it. Alfresco provides web based content management, collaboration platform, Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), records management and image management.
Alfresco has enterprise edition and free community edition. See the difference between them here. If you have an in-house IT team, just go with the Alfresco community edition. It is straight-forward to install and configure Alfresco.
In this article, let us review how to install and configure alfresco community edition on UNIX / Linux platform using 12 easy steps.
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by SathiyaMoorthy on May 21, 2010
Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute Erlang program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example?
Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World Erlang program, Compile and execute erlang program on Linux or Unix OS.
If you are new to Erlang programming language, read this erlang programming page on wikipedia.
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by Balakrishnan Mariyappan on May 19, 2010
by Ramesh Natarajan on May 17, 2010
Bugzilla is the best open source bug tracking system. Very simple to use with lot of features. Bugzilla allows you to track the bugs and collaborate with developers and other teams in your organization effectively.
This is a detailed step-by-step bugzilla installation guide for Linux.
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by SathiyaMoorthy on May 14, 2010
Question: Sometimes I want to repeat a command (or shell-script) frequently (every few seconds). Is there a better way to execute a unix command every n seconds (instead of keep typing the same command manually)?
Answer: Using watch command you can execute a command and view it’s output every few seconds. This is very helpful while monitoring memory usage, disk usage etc.,
You can execute any Unix command using watch command. Watch command will be executed until you terminate it either by CTRL+C or kill the process.
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by Sasikala on May 14, 2010
Question: I’m using Sun Solaris OS. When I execute the find command, I get “find: bad option -not” as shown below. How do I fix the following error?
find: bad option -not
find: path-list predicate-list" in Solaris SunOS.
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