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You can shutdown, restart a linux box from Terminal. You can use the following commands to do so Open Terminal Type in “ sudo restart ” to restart the system Sometimes you may get the error “command restart not found” if you get this error then try the commands using sudo /sbin/restart or sudo /sbin/shutdown –r now   Get more help on shutdown command using man shutdown

ipconfig : Used to see the IP address and the gateway mask. Can also be used to ipconfig /all : Displays all the available information for a system ipconfig /displaydns : This will display the local dns file ipconfig /flushdns : This command will clear the local dns file systeminfo : Get the operating system information using this command systeminfo /S <systemname> /U <username> : Get the operating system information for a remote system using this command tasklist : Does the same thing that starting a task manager would do…Display a list of tasks running on the system. taskkill /im <imagename> : Kills the process with the image name provided taskkill /pid <processid> : Kills the process with the process id provided type : read a file from command line using type… netstat : You can get to know who/what is getting connected to your system   netstat –a: displays all connection info netstat –b : displays the executable name in the netstat outpu...

When we are running testng ant tasks we might get this error:  "Reference testng-impl-classpath not found" You should look at the testng.xml file you are using for testng to pick up your classes from!!! Like mine has the following:                          Now you should check if your classes mentioned in the file are found at the exact path.. I have a mistake in the path. My classes are found under Panels.LeftPanels.Barrel.TestBookBox Thus the error. So solution: Check if you have any mistake in the class path you mentioned!!!!

Its quite useful to work with user defined properties using ANT. Lets say you have a build.xml in which you want to run a target based on a user input...In my case I want to decide on which URL to pass to Selenium based on the user selection of the stage to run the tests against... Add the following to the build.xml:  Now you can access the property from your program as  String urlString = System.getProperty("url"); If you are using TestNG framework, then you should add the property to your ant task in the build.xml file as:          To send this property from command line, you should send the property as  -Durl=