Saturday, August 30, 2008

xargs and find

xargs and find

find and xargs do go very well together: find to locate what you're looking for, and xargs to run the same command on each of the things found.

Traditionally, an advantage to xargs was its ability to handle long command lines before failing, unlike some other commands. This command:

rm `find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3'`
is intended to remove all tmp/*.mp3 files (and ignore any subdirectories), but can fail with an "Argument list too long" message. This exact equivalent:
find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3' -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm
does exactly the same thing but will avoid the problem by batching arguments up. More modern kernels (since 2.6.23) shouldn't have this issue, but it's wise to make your scripts as portable as possible; and the xargs version is also easier on the eye.

You can also manually batch arguments if needed, using the -n option.

find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3' -maxdepth 1 | xargs -n1 rm
will pass one argument at a time to rm. This is also useful if you're using the -p option as you can confirm one file at a time rather than all at once.

Filenames containing whitespace can also cause problems; xargs and find can deal with this, using GNU extensions to both to break on the null character rather than on whitespace:

find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
You must use these options either on both find and xargs or on neither, or you'll get odd results.

Another common use of xargs with find is to combine it with grep. For example,

find . -name '*.pl' | xargs grep -L '^use strict'
will search all the *.pl files in the current directory and subdirectories, and print the names of any that don't have a line starting with 'use strict'. Enforce good practice in your scripting!


Thursday, August 21, 2008

Configure Special File Permissions

Name: sticky bit, 1, t
Users can only delete files when they are owner, or when they are root or owner of the directory. This is usually applied to be /tmp directory.

Name: SGID (Set GroupID), 2, s
When a program is run, this sets the group ID of the process to that of the group of the file. Files created in this directory belong to the group to which the directory belongs and not the primary group of the users. New directories created in this directories inherit the SGID bit.

Name: SUID (Set UserID), 4, s
Sets the user ID of the process to that of the owner of the file when the program is run.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

UUID

1. If you don't know the UUID of your disk, you can find it by using one of the several commands below:

host # vol_id /dev/sda3
...
ID_FS_UUID=a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b
...

or:

host # blkid /dev/sda3 <-- Leave blank to show all disks
/dev/sda3: LABEL="/" UUID="a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b" SEC_TYPE="ext3" TYPE="ext2"

also:

host # ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 11. Okt 18:02 a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b-> ../../sda3

2. If you prefer to generate your own UUID's (see above), you can use the uuidgen command and couple it with tune2fs to change the default UUID assigned to your disk by the system, like this:

host # uuidgen
1d721189-7b71-4315-95a7-1c3abc90d379
host # tune2fs -U 1d721189-7b71-4315-95a7-1c3abc90d379 /dev/sda3

3. Then again, if you already know the UUID, you might want to find out what disk it's associated with. You can generally get this information with the "findfs" command, like so:

host # findfs UUID=a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b
/dev/sda3

Of course, using some of the commands above and grepping out part of the UUID will also get you your answer, like:

host # ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid|grep a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 11. Okt 18:02 a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b-> ../../sda3

or

host # blkid|grep a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b <-- remember that blkid with no arguments returns all of the system disk
/dev/sda3: LABEL="/" UUID="a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b" SEC_TYPE="ext3" TYPE="ext2"

4. And, lastly (for this post, at least ;), you can mount your disks using the UUID, and even incorporate that automated UUID mounting into your /etc/fstab. To mount directly from the command line, you can do something like this:

host # mount -U a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b /directory/you/mount/this/disk/on

and you could instruct your system to mount this partition by UUID from within the fstab, as well. It works basically the same way that the LABEL keyword does:

host # cat /etc/fstab
...
UUID=a1331d73-d640-4bac-97b4-cf33a375ae5b /directory/you/mount/this/disk/on ext3fs defaults 1 1


And, at this point, you should be able to figure your way around using UUID's to manipulate your disk on Linux with no problem. Enjoy, and please "be careful" :)

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Expect and SSH

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set username [lrange $argv 0 0]
set password [lrange $argv 1 1]
set ipaddr [lrange $argv 2 2]
set timeout -1

spawn ssh $username@$ipaddr
match_max 100000

expect {
"*?(yes/no)*" { send -- "yes\r" }
"*?assword:*" { send -- "$password\r" }
}

set timeout 10
expect {
"*?assword:*" { send -- "$password\r" }
}

expect "$username*" { send -- "sudo su - \r" }
interact

Sunday, April 27, 2008

System Global Area

The SGA consists of several memory structures:
1. Shared Pool
2. Database Buffer Cache
3. Redo Log Buffer
4. Other structures (for example, lock and latch management, statistical data)


Shared Pool
It consists of two key performance-related memory structures, Library Cache, Data Dictionary Cache. Because the Shared Pool can be shared globally, such as reusable SQL execution plans, PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, and cursor information, it must be sized to accommodate the needs of both the fixed and variables areas. Memory allocation for the Shared Pool is determined by the SHARED_POOL_SIZE initialization parameter. It can be dynamically resized using ALTER SYSTEM SET. After performance analysis, this can be adjusted but the total SGA size cannot exceed SGA_MAX_SIZE.

Libray Cache
It stores information about eh most recently used SQL and PL/SQL statements. It enables the sharing of commonly used statements which is managed by the least recently used (LRU) algorithm.

Data Dictionary Cache
This is a collection of the most recently used definitions in the database, which includes information about database files, tables, indexes, columns, users, privileges, and other database objects. During the parse phase, the server process looks at the data dictionary for information to resolve object names and validate access. By caching data dctionary information into memory improves response time on queries and DML.

There are two additional memory structures that can be configured within the SGA:
1. Large Pool
2. Java Pool

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Oracle Architecture Diagram


 
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Oracle Primary Components

Oracle server:
There are several files, processes and memory structures in an Oracle server, however, not all of them are used when processing a SQL statement. Some are used to improve the performance of the databse, to ensure that the database can be recovered in the event of a software of hardware error, ot to perform other tasks necessary to maintain the database. The Oracle server consists of an Oracle instance and an Oracle database

Oracle Instance:
An Oracle instance is the combination of the background processes and memory structures. The instance must be started to access the data in the database. Every time an instance is started, a System Global Area (SGA) is allocated and Oracle background processes are started. Background processes perform functions on behalf of the invoking procceses. They consolidate functions that would otherwise be handled my multiple Oracle programs running for each user. The background processes perform input/output (I/O) and monitor other ORacle processes to provide increased parallelism for better performance and reliability. An Oracle instance consists of the System Global Area (SGA) memory structure and the background processes that are used to manage a database. An instance is identified by using methods specific to each operating system. The instance can open and use only one database at a time.

Oracle Database:
The general purpose of a database is to store and retrieve related information. an Oracle database has a logical and a physical structure. The physical structure of the database is a set of operating system files in the database. An Oracle database consists of three file types.
1. Data files containing the actual data in the database.
2. Online redo log files containing a record of changes made to the database to enable recovery of the data in case of failures.
3. Control files containing information necessary to maintain and verify database integrity.

Memory Structure
Oracle's memory structure consists of two memory areas known as
1. System Global Area (SGA): Allocated at instance startup, and is a fundamental component of an Oracle instance.
2. Program Global Area (PGA): Allocated when the server process is started.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Migration ASM from /dev/sdc to /dev/sdb

1. Startup ASM on sdc
[root@oracle01 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 487 3911796 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 488 974 3911827+ 83 Linux
[root@oracle01 ~]# su - oracle
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ export ORACLE_SID=+ASM
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Jan 9 22:10:09 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup mount
ASM instance started

Total System Global Area 83886080 bytes
Fixed Size 1217836 bytes
Variable Size 57502420 bytes
ASM Cache 25165824 bytes
ASM diskgroups mounted
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ asmcmd
ASMCMD> lsdg
State Type Rebal Unbal Sector Block AU Total_MB Free_MB Req_mir_free_MB Usable_file_MB Offline_disks Name
MOUNTED NORMAL N N 512 4096 1048576 7640 5284 0 2642 0 DATA/
ASMCMD> exit

2. Create filesystem onto sdb and do a dd sdc[1-2] to files (data_lun1, data_lun2)

[root@oracle01 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1305 10482381 83 Linux
[root@oracle01 ~]# mkfs /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
max_blocks 2683489280, rsv_groups = 81894, rsv_gdb = 639
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
1310720 inodes, 2620595 blocks
131029 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=2684354560
80 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Writing inode tables: done
inode.i_blocks = 46016, i_size = 4243456
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 33 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@oracle01 ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /mydata/
[root@oracle01 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
7.3G 3.5G 3.5G 51% /
/dev/sda1 99M 9.0M 85M 10% /boot
none 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 9.9G 23M 9.4G 1% /mydata
[root@oracle01 ~]# dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/mydata/data_lun1 bs=1M
3820+1 records in
3820+1 records out
[root@oracle01 ~]# dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=/mydata/data_lun2 bs=1M
3820+1 records in
3820+1 records out

3. Shutdown ASM

[root@oracle01 ~]# su - oracle
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ export ORACLE_SID=+ASM
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Jan 9 22:20:36 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL> shutdown immediate
ASM diskgroups dismounted
ASM instance shutdown

4. Delete /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2. Create a filesystem of 9.9G.

[root@oracle01 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1305.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4):
Value out of range.
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-1305, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1305, default 1305): 1305

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
[root@oracle01 ~]# partprobe
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc has been opened read-only.
[root@oracle01 ~]# mkfs /dev/sdc1
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
max_blocks 2683489280, rsv_groups = 81894, rsv_gdb = 639
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
1310720 inodes, 2620595 blocks
131029 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=2684354560
80 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Writing inode tables: done
inode.i_blocks = 46016, i_size = 4243456
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@oracle01 ~]# mkdir /mydata2
[root@oracle01 ~]# mount /dev/sdc1 /mydata2
[root@oracle01 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
7.3G 3.5G 3.5G 51% /
/dev/sda1 99M 9.0M 85M 10% /boot
none 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 9.9G 7.5G 1.9G 81% /mydata
/dev/sdc1 9.9G 23M 9.4G 1% /mydata2

5. Move data_lun[1-2] to this filesystem /mydata2

[root@oracle01 ~]# cp /mydata/* /mydata2/
cp: omitting directory `/mydata/lost+found'
[root@oracle01 ~]# cd /mydata2
[root@oracle01 mydata2]# ls -sh
total 7.5G
3.8G data_lun1 3.8G data_lun2 16K lost+found


6. Creating /dev/sdb[1-2]

[root@oracle01 mydata2]# fdisk /dev/sdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1305.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1305 10482381 83 Linux

Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 1

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-1305, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1305, default 1305): 487

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (488-1305, default 488):
Using default value 488
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (488-1305, default 1305): 974

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

7. dd the data_lun[1-2] back to /dev/sdb[1-2]

[root@oracle01 mydata2]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 487 3911796 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 488 974 3911827+ 83 Linux

[root@oracle01 mydata2]# dd if=/mydata2/data_lun1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M
3820+1 records in
3820+1 records out
[root@oracle01 mydata2]# dd if=/mydata2/data_lun2 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=1M
3820+1 records in
3820+1 records out
[root@oracle01 asm]# ln -s /dev/sdb1 /u02/oradata/asm/data_lun1
[root@oracle01 asm]# ln -s /dev/sdb2 /u02/oradata/asm/data_lun2
[root@oracle01 asm]# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u02/oradata/asm/data_lun*
[root@oracle01 asm]# chmod -R 660 /u02/oradata/asm/data_lun*

8. Start and mount ASM on /dev/sdb[1-2]

[root@oracle01 asm]# su - oracle
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ export ORACLE_SID=+ASM
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Jan 9 22:58:11 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup mount
ASM instance started

Total System Global Area 83886080 bytes
Fixed Size 1217836 bytes
Variable Size 57502420 bytes
ASM Cache 25165824 bytes
ASM diskgroups mounted
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ asmcmd
ASMCMD> lsdg
State Type Rebal Unbal Sector Block AU Total_MB Free_MB Req_mir_free_MB Usable_file_MB Offline_disks Name
MOUNTED NORMAL N N 512 4096 1048576 7640 5284 0 2642 0 DATA/
ASMCMD>

9. Start Database instance

[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ export ORACLE_SID=testdb
[oracle@oracle01.myserver.com /home/oracle]
$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Jan 9 23:00:00 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup open
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 167772160 bytes
Fixed Size 1218316 bytes
Variable Size 71305460 bytes
Database Buffers 92274688 bytes
Redo Buffers 2973696 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.

SQL>

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

wget and bash

If you want to download a script and run it right away, then, you can run this command to ease your task.

wget -qO- http://myserver/myscript.sh | /bin/bash