Category Archives: FLOSS
Upgrading Slackware to 2.6 kernel
Yesterday I updated the slackware kernel to 2.6.16.22. I picked up this version from the testing directory on the slackware’s ftp site. The packages I needed were: kernel-generic-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz kernel-modules-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.6.16.22-i486-1 Apart from these I installed the source package also kernel-source-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz … Continue reading
Moving data to a seperate filesystem
Often its required that the a directory (for example /home)be moved to a seperate filesystem. The steps are simple: Boot system in single user mode (linux single), or if already booted take it down to single user using, init 1 … Continue reading
Windows-Linux Single Signon
Often I have been asked by the developers about the possibility of Linux servers authenticating against Active Directory so that the users do not have to change passwords on all the servers.Good suggestion, I thought! This will also free me … Continue reading
NIC Bonding
NIC Bonding is a technique in which multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs) are logically bonded together and presented as a single interface to the outside world. Before activating bonding it is recommended that the NICs are working alright. mii-tool can … Continue reading
Security Softwares
On Unixreview.com came across a secrity tool to be used for SSH servers. Denyhost is a python script which finds out invalid login attempts from the log files and can add the IP address from where the login attempt was … Continue reading