Monthly Archives: January 2008
UNIX 10 Good Habits
Got this tips from the people at IBM. These tips are a must not only for System Administrators but also for all UNIX users. Ten good habits to adopt are: Make directory trees in a single swipe. Change the path; do not move the archive. Combine your commands with control operators. Quote variables with caution. … Continue reading
NFS server CDM Server not responding still trying
When listing mounted file system (df -k), it apparently freezes and displays: NFS server CDM Server not responding still trying also when trying to change directory to /ctxmnt, the same error occurs Not responding error message In the unlikely event that the client drive mapping process on the server is slow in responding, an error … Continue reading
General Asterisk Installation Instructions
After reading the Asterisk Overview a few post back, let’s continue with our adventure in the world of Asterisk – the open source telephone toolkit. We need to do two things (that is, two steps) in order install Asterisk on our vmware powered Red hat enterprise server: Get the source code Compile to produce the … Continue reading
Sun Microsystems Owns Mysql AB
Here’s the news that everyone involved in IT should know by now – Sun Microsystems bought Mysql AB! For those who doesn’t know, MySQL AB is the company behind MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database. From the blog of Sun Microsystems’ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz‘ : We announced big news today – our preliminary … Continue reading
AsteriskNOW – Asterisk Out Of The Box
I recently found a nice read about a Linux Project or Distro that includes Asterisk. It contains all the Asterisk stuff one will ever need. The project is called AsteriskNOW. You can donwload the package at asteriskNOW.com. You can choose to download and ISO image or a VMWare image on the donwload page. The is … Continue reading
Game Time! Sysads’ Break
What do most sysads do during they idle time? We could play tennis, badminton, soccer, basketball and other physical sports, but no! Some of us, though more that 12 hours in front of a computer terminal still prefers to play computer games, either PC games or mac games or both! Introducing Midoritech Tons of games … Continue reading
Perl One Liner: Search and Replace for LDAP ldif file
Quick post… note to self… In resetting passwords for one of our customers, we have to create the necessary LDIF file (yep, system uses LDAP), and do the ldapmodify command. Instead of creating ldif file (or editing existing) every time there is a password reset, why ‘vi’ every time when you can do a one … Continue reading
Asterisk Overview: An Open Source VoIP Application
Asterisk is an open source application on telephony applications and a full-featured call-processing server. It’s is one of the last technology that has been in existence too long that the open source group has touched on. There has been and open source web server (Apache), mail server (qmail, sendmail, postfix etc), proxy server (squid), CMS … Continue reading