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The easy and possibly only way I can think of is at the OS level do a ls -altr / or df -k the solaris equivalent on the file

Thanks I think I'm starting to get a handle on it - I'll award you a star for your help though!

What are the benefits and problems of using 1 or the other? Can they be used to perform essentially the same task i.e. Disaster Prevention / recovery. Which tool is most suitable for what or are they best used together? Your experiences and comments could be very useful in helping me define &...

Also look at resources like www.tldp.org

4 what its worth if you are a total newbie try it out play with it install it try to break it - use a free distro and the free Links like this to answer specific question or spend £10 - £25 on a good book - you'll learn a lot more hten you can if you want go on to the course.

WHy not use Ihat - Oracle's own tool this does give you up to date info on your OC4J Instances is freely downloadable can work from a browser and is easy to use.

We have a Web Content Management System (Web Based) which links to an Oracle DB - currently the service is planned to expand to include much more data which will impact on the database in terms of size / number of users accessing etc Does anyone have any tips on how best to ensure the increased...

I think maybe unlucky Tony, I've had and used several complete reference books over the years and have yet to suffer a cracked spine!

Wassup with Telnet? Unless you use / have SSH you should be able to simply telnet from a dos command to your Linux system and logon and issue your command / run your script. Hope that helps.

I definately like the Linux in a nutshell book but its not really for newbies - a good all encompassing book I still refer to is the Complete reference book also reviewed here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072129409/qid=1106143018/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-5248940-7619009

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good understandable guide that explains how to set up Oracle reports security - Through Portal I need to know the how to and rationale and best practices of everything from setting up a database portlet provider through creating reports server access...

Read up on cron enables you to run specific commands or scripts at scheduled times / days etc.

I can think of 2 options (though why you would want to do this I don't know) 1: Don't start webcache i.e dont issue the webcachectl start command. 2: If you have fiewalls implemented block the port which your webcache uses.

Windows emergency boot disk Fdisk or Fdisk /mbr You could also re-install windows from scratch and that should do it.

Try an rpm -V package_name against the package you are trying to install (Note the uppercase V) this verifies file sizes also do a man rpm to see the other switches you could try rpm -Uvfb package_name..