Linux Professional Institute alumni to receive Novell Certified Linux Administrator for free. As in for free!!! No charge or extra exam to take. As long you are a LPIC-1 certified, you are eligible to be a CLA certified. So what’s the catch? Seems Novell wants to boost their marketing strategy and pump up the numbers [...]

In this setup, my server also serves as the Network Information Service(NIS) server and NFS indirect sharing for user’s home directory.

This is my personal notes on Veritas Volume Manager. This page is a continuing notes of frequent commands that i use in VxVM

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”

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Initialize ssh port forwarding of FTP #modprobe ip_conntrack #modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp

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

#mount the samba share mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //server/share /mnt/database