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
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
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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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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