Ajitabh Pandey's Soul & Syntax

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Author: Ajitabh

  • 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 to the zone without rebooting the zone. Also, we need to make sure that the addition of new resources to the zone are persistent across reboots.
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  • 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 $line
    done
    
  • 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.
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  • Tightening up OpenSSH

    Often I am required required to run a public ssh server, so its a good idea to restrict the OpenSSH server as much as possible.
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  • Building A Highly Available Nginx Reverse-Proxy Using Heartbeat

    A cluster in computing is a term used to describe a group of closely linked computers often appearing as a single entity to the outside world. There are various types of clusters—high-availability (HA) clusters, load-balancing clusters, compute clusters or high performance computing (HPC) clusters and grids.

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