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Disable / Turn Off Linux Password expiration / Aging
Yep, another personal reference and to think that I should know these stuff by heard. Well, most of the servers I am handling now are solaris and for particular example, it’s for Linux.. I guess there will be some similarities but for this post, we’ll take Redhat linux as an example: The command is chage … Continue reading
Protect Your Users – Websites To Block From Your Network
As a System Administrator, one of our main responsibility if to protect our user from (themselves) internet sites that are not appropriate in the workplace. On this article, let’s enumerate some of the websites that needs to be blocked and should not even reach the company servers. TNAFlix Xhamster Redtube Tube8 Empflix Youjizz Jizzhut JizzOnline … Continue reading
ufsdump – How To Backup Solaris/Linux Root Filesystem
Alright, here’s how – usfsdump – How To Backup Solaris/Linux Root Filesystem. use ufsdump Say for example you have this: $ df -k / Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 673951 415497 197799 68% / $ df -k /CMS Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s0 35009161 32305691 2353379 94% /CMS $ … Continue reading
How To Restore Root (and /usr/) rfile system Solaris- restoresymtable –
Sun Solaris – Restoring root file system (/) – Solaris 9, Solaris 10 provides steps we need to follow to restore the root file system (/ system) in SPARC and x86 (intel) machines. 1) Log in as root user. It is a security practice to login as normal user and perform an su to take … Continue reading
Solutions for Solaris SVM Needs Maintenance and Last Erred status
This post is because while patching a Solaris 10 server with patch level Generic_142900-02 to Generic_142900-13.. There’s a need maintenance error on one of the sub mirror: When a slice in a mirror or RAID5 metadevice device experiences errors, DiskSuite puts the slice in the “Maintenance” state. No further reads or writes are performed to … Continue reading
Cannot find required executable /usr/bin/7za
The complete error actually is: Cannot find required executable /usr/bin/7za pkgadd: ERROR: class action script din not complete successfully That was the error message displaced when I tried installing two Sun packages as requested by a user, SUNWeu8os and SUNWeulof. Packages can be found in tge Solaris 10 disk release 5/08. When i tried installing … Continue reading
Limesurvey PHPSurveyor
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Webapplication that interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, orPostgres to develop surveys, publish surveys, andcollect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created, data can be inserted into the survey either by a “pretty” public screen which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data … Continue reading
ZFS Quotas and Reservations
Notes on ZFS quotas, reservations and others.. like adding up disk for the pool and creating pool altogether. First, create a pool using ‘zpool‘. Then use ‘zfs‘ to make the filesystems. Creating Pool with zpool Create a pool called pool1. The -m is optional. If given, it specifies a mount point for zfs filesystems created … Continue reading
ld.so.1: cc: fatal: libpicl.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
ld.so.1: cc: fatal: libpicl.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory – that’s the latest problem we encountered in installing Ruby on Rails… (well, not actually on Ruby but in some dependencies)… Last time we did the GlassFish webstack installation (just to get RoR working) because the Ruby in Coolstack was an old version Ruby … Continue reading
Ubuntu New Release Ver. 9 Available for Download Free
Just want to confirm my hunch that this Ubuntu 9 sites that is all over the internet is nothing but worthless, infoless, another junk spread in the internet. But if you really want to download the new release or version of UBUNTU 9, there is a link in Review ninja you can go ahead and … Continue reading