Hi,
not answers to all questions but for a few
Venugopal, N wrote:
>
> 1. How to zip using gzip ? Do you have to tar first ? Or directly you
> can ?
You can make an gz-file by using "gzip <file>.gz" ; if you want to pack
a whole directory I would recommend tgz-files made by "tar cvfz
<file>.tgz /<directory>" (they are tared and compressed that qay); to
unpack them use "tar xvfz <file>.tgz".
> 2. pkgadd in Linux ? How to build a package using rpm ?
I have no experiences with building rpm-files but the manpage of rpm got
some examples for the main options.
> 3. how to ensure metaset type functionality when configuring SW RAID in
> Linux ?
Excuse me - I don't understand "metaset type"; what is ment by this
(maybe I can answer this question, too)?
> 4. how to write agents for monitoring Enet, disks, CPU, DBMS (Oracle and
> Sybase) in Linux ? Need a guy with a thorough understanding of Linux
> kernel.
There is kind of sar for linux, but you can't monitor the disks like in
FreeBSD or HP-UX (percentage use of the disks).
The cpu can be monitored by using top (ASCII-mode), xosview (X-mode),
xload, kcpumon and many other tools; I use xosview in combination with
top most times, because you can change the output of top by several
commands (just watching the processes of only one user; processes sorted
by cpu-usage and so on); xosview is a nice graphical tool, which shows
you cpu- (in general), network-, memory-, interrupt-, swap-usage and
load of the machine (also two cpu-bars for smp-machines).
The question conncerning Oracle is also interesting for me (we are just
using Oracle on linux, but got it monitored via NT and the
Oracle-tools); there is a discussion -forum on
http://technet.oracle.com/linux ; maybe you will find an answer there.
> 5. How to recompile the kernel safely at one go ? Would like to have
> somebody here who's done it at least once.
Change to (usually) /usr/src/linux and make a "make menuconfig" or make
"xconfig"; choose the options and hardware you want and exit. After that
you have to make a "make dep ; make clean ; make modules ; make
modules_install". Finally you can choose wether using lilo, bootdisk or
loadlin.
For using lilo type "make zlilo", for using bootdisk type "make zdisk"
(would be the better way to test the new kernel), for using loadlin type
"make zImage" and copy the zImage finally to the loadlin-directory
(usually on a dos-partition).
If there is a error message like "system is to big" do bzlilo, bzdisk,
or bzImage.
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> Rgds
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