Recently I posted about our Websphere MQ MQCONN 2195 errors, and how we needed to apply the minimal recommended Solaris Kernel tuning for Websphere MQ. Well, we applied the changes, rebooted and connection problems were gone. Our application was able to spawn multiple connections to MQ without the errors we were seeing before. However, we …
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Solaris tar and changing absolute paths
On linux and other Unix like operating systems, you can untar a tar file with an absolute path to a different location. On Solaris using tar you can not. How do you get around this? Perderabo on the Unix for Advanced and Expert Users forum describes how. Here is an example (names and servers changed …
Clearcase Element Permissions on Unix
I was wondering how to set permissions on an element in clearcase under unix. You can’t just use your normal chmod. After reading “Phil for Humanity” I had the answer: cleartool protect -chmod 550 myscript.sh Quite simple after all. Your file, in this case myscript.sh, will now have the permissions you want. Remember however, if …
Solaris Zombie processes
In Solaris (and UNIX), a process is a zombie, as shown by the message defunct in the ps report. A zombie process is one that has had all its resources freed, but has not received an acknowledgement from a parent process, receipt of which would ordinarily remove its entry from the process table. The next …
