Accessing the Command Line Args of a Shell Script from an Embedded AWK script

Let's start with the example of the skeleton of a shell script running on Sun Solaris.#!/bin/shif [ $# -lt 2 ]; then echo "Usage: pmap_mf.sh " exitfi...pmap -x $PIDS | grep total | awk 'BEGIN { FS = " " } {print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5} {rss+=$4} {private+=$5} END {print "Total Private mem: "private/1024" M Total RSS mem: "rss/1024" M Total Shared mem: " (rss-private)/1024 "M **** For 10000 user load: per user memory footprint is: "((private/1024)+(((rss-private)/1024)/NR))/10000"...

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Oracle 10g: Upgrading to a Higher Patchset (eg., 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3)

This blog post outlines the steps involved in patching an existing Oracle 10g RDBMS environment to a higher patch set with an example showing the steps for upgrading from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3. For detailed instructions, check the README page that is associated with the patch{set}. Use these instructions at your own risk. First of all, Oracle wouldn't let you start the database up after simply installing the latest patch set on top of an existing...

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Is Oracle's PeopleSoft Really a Multi-Threaded Application?

Perhaps the answer to this question is irrelevant to many of the PeopleSoft end users - but it is really important for the administrators to know what kind of application they are dealing with.Here is a snapshot of the process statistics (prstat output) for the PeopleSoft application server processes running on a Solaris 10 system: PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 10864 psft 353M 235M sleep 60 ...

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Windows Vista/HP Pavilion dv9000: Fixing Y! Messenger's Webcam Not Connected Error

If the built-in webcam of HP Pavilion dv9000 is not functioning properly on Windows Vista with Yahoo! Messenger, one of the following steps may help fix the issue (Courtesy: HP Customer Support).Step #1: Unistall HP Pavilion Webcam software. Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Programs -> Uninstall a program. Uninstall the Webcam driver from the Device Manager as follows: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Device Manager...

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PeopleSoft: Fixing "msgget: No space left on device" Error on Solaris 10

When high number of application server processes are configured in a single PeopleSoft domain or in multiple domains cumulative, it is very likely that the PeopleSoft server domain boot process may fail with errors like:Booting server processes ...exec PSSAMSRV -A -- -C psappsrv.cfg -D CS90SPV -S PSSAMSRV : Failed.113954.ben15!PSSAMSRV.29746.1.0: LIBTUX_CAT:681: ERROR: Failure to create message queue113954.ben15!PSSAMSRV.29746.1.0: LIBTUX_CAT:248:...

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