I started my computer career as a Unix system administrator, and when I began using SAS almost 30 years ago it was only natural that I used it on Unix computers (they were the most powerful/capable computers I had access to at the time). I’ve picked up…
Tag: Unix
SAS Download Manager in Console Mode
SAS® 9.4 M3 is now available (as discussed by Andy Ratcliffe in his recent NOTE: blog post), so I’m downloading a new SAS depot using the SAS Download Manager. I’m downloading it onto a Linux server that happens to have X11 available, but I’m choosing to use console (text) mode, rather than the default X11 […]
PC SAS Programmer Facing UNIX? SAS Enterprise Guide to the Rescue
Time for another confession. For more than a decade I have been running SAS jobs on UNIX servers, but I don’t really know any UNIX editors. Not Emacs. Not vi. I could work around this without SAS Enterprise Guide, but it was painful sometimes. Now that I have started using Enterprise …
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SAS Management Console over SSH
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…
SAS & JBoss: Too Many Open Files
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…
Find Errors and Warnings Quickly
Need to find all of the errors and warnings in your SAS Log quickly? Unleash the following while inside the log’s directory while on any *nix based OS. egrep ‘(ERROR:|WARNING)’ I save a lot of time scanning the 10,000+ line log files some of the automated jobs create.
CHMOD 740
How to change the permission on my files
CHMOD 740
How to change the permission on my files