Category Archives: Tips

How To Grayscale and Image Using GIMP

Alright, here’s one of many tutorial you will find here at SysadmindayPH. This post is all about how to turn your colorful pictures and images into black and white, or grayscale using GIMP …Of course using GIMP! For those who do not know what GIMP is, is short GNU Image Manipulation Program. What’s GNU? It’s … Continue reading

How to Make your Computer Faster

No matter how you ask it, how to make your computer faster, or how to make computer faster, we all want the same thing.. to make more out of our computer. A number of people are asking, specially those folks not so familiar with computer or with technology in general – “how do i make … Continue reading

SSH Tectia: Setup Public-Key Authentication

A quick post on how to setup a public-key authentication on an SSH client server, product by SSH Tectia. Summary: User instruction on how to setup public-key authentication. In setting up the ssh public-key authentication between servers, local and remote, we have to generate the key pairs and transfer it to the remote/server. Client Side … Continue reading

2 Newest WordPress Plugin in Sysadmindayph

There’s this 2 new WordPress plugin here in Sysadmindayph dot com (the newest that I installed at least). I just want to share this one for the readers of this blog who is also WordPress user. The two new plugins here are: SEO Smart Link Broken Link Checker SEO Smart Link – SEO Smart Links … Continue reading

SVM: Determine Free Space on Soft Partition

SVM: Determine Free Space on Soft Partition , we use the metastat -c command… [root@localhost] /work/users> metastat -c d103 d103 p 32GB d100 d100 m 68GB d101 d102 d101 s 68GB c1t2d0s0 d102 s 68GB c1t3d0s0 [root@localhost] /work/users> metastat -p d103 d103 -p d100 -o 32 -b 58720256 -o 127926432 -b 8388608 d100 -m d101 … Continue reading

BMC/Veritas Netbackup Daemon (bpcd bprd) Restart

Here’s some tips in bouncing off NBU client daemon. BMC Netbackup (formerly with Veritas apparently) may have a number of ways to accomplish this (specially if you’re not the backup admin) and depending on the version of the Netbackup software. The following general guidelines can be used to determine if a restart of NetBackup is … Continue reading

Metastat Needs Maintenance Metareplace

Guilty! Putting all those Metastat keywords on one subject, that’s me! ANyway, I don’t want to stale this blog so once in a while I’m going to be posting some bits and pieces of Unix tools/tips.. and here’s a new one about SVM… Responding to Disk Errors courtesy of BigAdmin!

Send Break on SPARC Enterprise T5120 – Send Break on ILOM

Send Break on SPARC Enterprise T5120 – well it for the T5000 series I guess, the newer ones. Or “Sending Break onan ILOM.. “->” = ILOM “sc>” = ALOM .. and since this particular server has the “->” prompt we’re using the ILOM. From ILOM to Solaris: -> start /SP/console From ALOM to Solaris: sc> … Continue reading

Transfer Firefox Settings to New Computer

How do you transfer all the nice little Firefox settings, bookmarks, plugins and addons that you already have on your old computer to your new one? I’m sure there must be some configuration file somewhere in your program files or the code of firefox itself, but for use not so fluent with firefox, we can … Continue reading

UX: usermod: WARNING: Group entry exceeds 2048 char: /etc/group entry truncated

“UX: usermod: WARNING: Group entry exceeds 2048 char: /etc/group entry truncated” That’s today’s error,.. you wake up, logged and that’s the request that get slapped on you face… This is when you try to add or modify a user’s group membership with ‘usermod -G’.. It usually happen when the group has tons of members and … Continue reading