The processing of the name service switch configuration file, /etc/nsswitch.conf, is subtle. Existing tools, such as ” truss” , do not always provide sufficent information as to how a lookup is performed. However, by setting the NSS_OPTIONS environment variable, the name service switch can reveal how...
Unix Intermediate / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM - How to / VxVM Learning
by Ramdev · Published June 23, 2022
The vxattachd daemon monitors Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) for disks being attached. The vxattachd daemon reattaches the detached plexes or sites if the corresponding disks become accessible. vxattachd analyzes the output of the vxnotify command, and waits for a failed disk to attach. When a disk...
Growing mirrored veritas volumes takes special care since it is desirable to keep each side of the mirror (plex) on different controllers. This procedure requires use of the GUI and command line interface.
1. What is the difference between an ext2 and ext3 file system? 1A. An ext3 file system has journaling built in to it, whereas the ext2 file system doesn’t. 2. What command can you use to create a file system? 2a. mkfs.ext4 3. Can you grow...
Linux Admin / Recent Posts / Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / RHEL7 / Web Servers
by Shujat Husain · Published June 20, 2022
Security is up of utmost importance when it comes to data. Whether its data on FTP or on a website and breaches are major concern when our data is on internet. In this tutorial, we are going to discuss some tips which can help us make...
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What is Puppet ? Puppet is very powerful configuration management software. Using it can make your life a lot easier if you manage hundreds of systems. The end user community is very active in Puppet. Every year there is PuppetConf, which hosts training and other sessions of...
The one of the usual way to do this is to backup all the tables and do a fresh os install.
Solaris Admin / Solaris Commands / Solaris11 Admin / solaris11-Howto
by Ramdev · Published June 16, 2022
What is Image the Packaging System? The Image Packaging System (IPS) is a new network-centric software packaging and delivery system in Oracle Solaris 11. IPS allows efficient, observable, and controllable transitions between known configurations of software content providing administrators with safe system upgrade environments and better...
Linux tutorials / media / Recent Posts / Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / RHEL7
by Shujat Husain · Published June 15, 2022
VLC player is free & open source cross platform multimedia player that is available for Windows, Linux, Mac , Android, IOS etc & plays almost all the available audio & video formats available. It can also be used as a streaming media server & also boasts...
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