Archive for the 'Linux/Nix' Category
Configuring clients users home directory in NIS using Solaris 10
Posted on August 13, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | 1 Comment
In this setup, my server also serves as the Network Information Service(NIS) server and NFS indirect sharing for user’s home directory.
Penoi’s Veritas Volume Manager Notes
Posted on August 11, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | Leave a Comment
This is my personal notes on Veritas Volume Manager. This page is a continuing notes of frequent commands that i use in VxVM
Adding RTL8111B/RTL8111C network driver to Solaris Jumpstart
Posted on August 8, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | 1 Comment
My jumpstart client has a builtin RTL8111B/RTL8111C network card. When i boot up the client thru PXE booting it gives me an error “no driver was found for the interface used to boot jumpstart”
Network Storage Foundation
Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix, Technology | 2 Comments
Today we discussed introduction on NAS and SAN. Many companies offers such kind of technology product. Even the open source community has its own implementation like FreeNAS and NexentaStor. This will play a great part on my future jobs, so i have to deeply learn this technology.
Cleared Linux Professional Institute Certification Level-1
Posted on July 3, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | 1 Comment
After 3 weeks of waiting, i received yesterday the result of my Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPI)Level-1 exam and the grade was PASS. I can’t believe i nailed exam 102 in which im not sure with my answer. With a passing grade of 500, i got 560!!! what a luck eh!!!!. Hopefully i will have [...]
Solaris for newbie
Posted on June 18, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | Leave a Comment
Starting to learn Sun Solaris. Mainly, my work experience heavily focused on Redhat Linux. Still so many things to catch up. Got this free Solaris ebook for newbie and it has the information that i need for my initial study on Solaris. Must obtain my certification on Solaris in two months time. :( For my [...]
SSH Port Forwarding Passive FTP
Posted on May 6, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | Leave a Comment
Initialize ssh port forwarding of FTP
#modprobe ip_conntrack
#modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
Problem with rpmdb
Posted on May 2, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | 1 Comment
Problem
rpm -qa | grep <package>
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Quick and Dirty Mysql backup to Samba share
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | Leave a Comment
#mount the samba share
mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //server/share /mnt/database
XMMS Mp3 Plugin in Backtrack Linux
Posted on April 6, 2008 - Filed Under Linux/Nix | 1 Comment
wget http://www.osnews.com/files/xmms-mp3-fc1.tar.gz
tar xvzf xmms-mp3-fc1.tar.gz
