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A tool that changes the way of system administration – PUPPET ( from puppetlabs)
First of all my apologies, I haven’t realized that my email posts changed from full posts to excerpt mode while changing some other feeder settings. Now, I have changed the posts to full content mode again, to let you read entire post from your inbox comfortably....
Linux Admin Reference – LVM Administration – Redhat Enterprise Linux
1. How do I reduce LVM logical voulme in Red Hat Enterprise linux? First of all make sure to have sufficient disk space available before reducing logical volume (otherwise it would result in data loss). Also, make sure to have valid data backup before going forward...
Linux Samba Server integration with Windows Active Directory – Part 2
This is second part of my earlier post “Linux Samba Server integration with Windows Active Directory”. In this post I will be showing you the procedure to configure the Samba servers with two different shares, one share is having access to only specific samba user whereas...
Entrepreneurship — Life beyond System Administration
This is one of the best inspirational video I have ever seen about entrepreneurship, by Intel. And it is good , occasionally, to take our mind to out of box ideas.
Linux Samba Server integration with Windows Active Directory – Part 1
Samba is an opensource suite that provided file and printer services in a heterogeneous environment ( with Windows , Unix and Linux). The key advantage of samba service is, it’s ability to provide file and print shares for both Windows and Unix clients equally. My main focus...
Hands on LAB – Configuring LAMP STACK for Web Applications- cookbook
The Internet World , we live today ,completely filled with web pages and applications. In the initial days, web sites were just limited to static html pages and the traditional web servers like Apache fulfilled the purpose. But now the current trend is dynamic web pages which...
Solaris Troubleshooting NIS: add a user for NIS maps when passwd file is not in the /etc directory
Below procedure can be used to add a new NIS user when the passwd file is not in the /etc directory Steps to Follow The example below demonstrates how to add a user for NIS maps when the passwd file is not in the /etc directory....
ZFS Patching with Zones using LU (Liveupgrade) in Solaris.
ZFS Patching with Zones using LU (Liveupgrade) in Solaris. SOLARIS LIVE UPGRADE: Solaris Live Upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot...
