I recently upgraded some hosts to Fedora 11 which has Samba 3.4 included. I configure most of the hosts I control to be integrated with Active Directory for authentication and […]
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A fairly typical scenario when installing software that does not come fro the distribution package manager is to install an application and find that it cannot find a library necessary […]
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When reviewing the history file in bash, it’s terrible not knowing when a command was executed. Using the HISTTIMEFORMAT variable in a .bashrc file, the timestamp can be added to […]
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I just spent a bit of time troubleshooting a path issue with sudo on a CentOS server. This is a note to self to preserve this bit of knowledge. When […]
READ MORESoftware RAID and GRUB
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When building out a system with a boot partition using software RAID, it is critical to install GRUB on both drives to that if one fails, the other can be […]
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One of the biggest bottlenecks in any system is the hard disk drive. I found HyperOS Systems while reviewing the MySQL users mailing list yesterday. This company sells a device […]
READ MOREWhat is Linux?
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The Linux Foundation recently had a contest to see who could come up with a video to compete with the “I’m a Mac” and “I’m a PC” ads. Here is […]
READ MOREI came across this handy page which details LUN alignment offset via fdisk: Setting the offset. Apparently this comes in handy when working with EMC Clarriions.
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