Blogging Tools

I've been running this blog with some of Blogger's tools for a while now.

Obviously there is Adwords, but those trawling through the HTML (but why would you these days?) will also pick up that I'm using Google Analytics.

Now I turned on Analytics some months ago and the results have been interesting. People are actually reading my blog. Quite a lot. Generally from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. I had wondered, because there were very few clicks on the Adwords. Perhaps I should not be surprised by that - I only rarely follow an Adwords link on another Blog. I've almost learnt to phase them out automatically. I think it is only the Adwords on GMail I really ever click. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone really clicks on Adwords links anymore.

Now, Google analytics has really shown which posts have and continue to attract attention. It is the VMware posts which attract most attention. In fact for the last month the top 5 are all VMware posts. The highest Solaris post is the one about changing hostids and that is coming in at no.7.

So it goes!

NIS+ master Backup script

 This is the script I mentioned using in the my earlier post about replacing the hardware of a NIS+ master.

Having had to use it now, perhaps the only other thing I would add into it would be the root crontab, but that would simply be:
crontab -l >> $log

Obviously, < server > is your server name, i.e. atuin or sunsvr01. And the < off server storage location > is a storage location that is easily accessible when you need it!

# more scripts/nisbackup.sh
#!/bin/sh

log="/var/tmp/nisbackup.log"
date=`date '+%m/%d/%y at %H:%M:%S'`

echo "Starting NIS+ backup on $date" > $log
cp -p /etc/.rootkey /var/nisplus.rootkey.copy
cp -p /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START /var/<server>-NIS_COLD_START
cp -p /etc/shadow /var/<server>-shadow
cp -p /etc/passwd /var/<server>-passwd
/usr/sbin/nisbackup -a /var/nisplus_backup

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  cd /var
  echo "Listing nisplus_backup" >> $log
  ls -l /var/nisplus_backup >> $log
  echo "Creating tar" >> $log
  tar cvf /<off server storage location>/nisplus/backup/nisplusbackup.tar nisplus_backup nisplus.rootkey.copy <server>-NIS_COLD_START <server>-shadow <server>-passwd >> $log
  echo "Checking validity of tar:" >> $log
  tar tvf /apps/admin/nisplus/backup/nisplusbackup.tar >> $log
  else
    echo "nisbackup failed!!!" >> $log
fi

/usr/bin/mailx -s "NIS+ backup" server_admins < $log

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New Solaris Resource

Whilst searching for information on a specific feature of IP-Filter, I came across a new resource of Solaris Information.

My only worry, other than with Oracle taking SUN over Solaris will wither on the vine, is that a lot of this information may be quite old, if I was solely to judge the site from the Solaris logo!

I'm going to add the site to my useful links. And that's that!