Author Archives: Ajitabh
OpenSolaris – Desktop Experience – Part 1
Installation Few days back I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my aging IBM R50e Thinkpad. My previous experience with OpenSolaris Solaris Express builds were not that great from desktop point of view. Primary problem being no support for the Intel Pro … Continue reading
Balancing Traffic Across Data Centres Using LVS
The LVS (Linux Virtual Server) project was launched in 1998 and is meant to eliminate Single Point of Failures (SPOF). According to the linuxvirtualserver.org website: “LVS is a highly scalable and available server built on a cluster of real servers, … Continue reading
Adding/Removing the Resources from a Running Solaris Zone
The zonecfg command is used to configure the zone. We can add and remove a resource from the solaris zone using zonecfg. Any change to zonecfg needs a reboot, but sometimes it is a requirement to dynamically add new resources … Continue reading
Syncing NIS Slaves
Sometimes when an NIS slave is out of action for quite sometime, it may go out of sync with the master. Following code will sync up the NIS slave with the master. ypwhich -m|awk ‘{print $1}’|while read line do /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypxfr … Continue reading
Fedora 10 x86-64 on a Laptop
I recently bought a Compaq Presario V3000 laptop after my IBM Thinkpad gave up on me. Since this is a 64-bit laptop I thought it will be a nice opportunity to jump into the 64-bit desktop experience.