showrev(1M) missing on Solaris 10
Today I realized I was missing the showrev command on a Solaris 10 machine I installed. I found it in the SUNWadmc package but received the following error:
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Tip: scp Resume
I left a desktop to download some humongous logs last night using scp and of course the connection was lost in the middle.
Changing an IP address in Solaris 10
I'm just starting to deal with Solaris 10 machines and I ran into a really annoying issue. When trying to change the IP address by modifying the appropriate files (or so I thought) the ip address kept getting reset on reboot.
Excel: Automatically alternate row colors (dynamically)
This is a life saver. Although I hate to admit it, Microsoft Excel is the one of the IT Professional's Swiss Army Knives.
Mysql Replication Error
This helped when I changed the hostname on my mysql slave server:
Here is a sample error message:
060614 11:17:42 Error reading packet from server: Could not find first log file name in binary log index file (server_errno=1236) 060614 11:17:42 Got fatal error 1236: ‘Could not find first log file name in binary log index file' from master when reading data from binary log