I was asked recently how to get SAS® Management Console to remotely access a SAS metadata server using SSH tunnels. In the absence of a VPN connection to your network, SSH can be an alternative for SAS Management Console access to a remote SAS met...
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I’ve been seeing some ‘Too many open files‘ exceptions in the SAS® mid-tier JBoss logs on my Ubuntu Linux server. I was surprised about this because I remember during installation I had followed the guidance in the SAS documentat...
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I ran into an interesting problem over the last few days with my SAS® 9.3 deployments on Linux. I had noticed that the sas.servers scripts for my Lev2 and Lev3 deployments were taking several minutes to start the SAS services. I know JBoss takes a...
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One of my laments about switching over to Ubuntu on my Macbook was the placement of the Super Key and the Control Key. I’m so used to using the Command key for all of the keyboard shortcuts that the Control key just felt unnatural. There are a bunch of resources out there on the...
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Oh fall, the time of year when my work hours shift based to avoid morning gridlock that due to the elementary school drop off. This year is a bit different as I’m not one of the teachers anxiously awaiting a new crop of kids on the first day of school. That chapter is behind...
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In a tweet by Gordon Cox last month, I was reminded of the restricted options facility available with SAS® software on UNIX platforms. This is capability where an administrator can set mandatory SAS system options at multiple levels of granularity: globally, per-group, and/or per-user. The reason for this post is that I don’t look...
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Whilst I often use the command line on Linux, it’s also nice to have icons in the menus to start SAS® applications like SAS Management Console and SAS Display Manager. These days I mostly use GNOME Do as an application launcher (its a bit like Quicksilver for Mac OS X). Naturally I like to...
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The SAS 9.2 Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment tool available at http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/SAS92HFADD.html is a fantastic step forward by SAS in helping SAS Administrators keep their system up to date. Paul Homes from Metacoda has previously blogged about this tool and how (much fun it is) to get it working under...
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