1. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

This is a guide for setting up your computer with a fast swap system using usb memory sticks. A detailed study of the theories behind this setup can be found here. While this How-To does not include the CFLRU replacement algorithm, it does show the performance benefits of using NAND flash memory... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Good morning, for the impatient: I have a new backup-server and need to monitor, what the machine can do, what's the best way of finding that out? I will tell the story right from the beginning, so you have a clue about what's going on: I have a setup of three machines: A new... (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I am trying to setup a server for a diskless boot of a computer class (with ubuntu) I followed the guidelines in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto I have two computers: one is the server I installed and the other is my macbook on which I run a virtual machine... (8 Replies)

4. Solaris

We have a WAN boot jumpstart server which works fine .. we have a requirement wherein we would require to jumpstart multiple sparc servers simultaneously, Whats the way .. so that we do not have to wait for a cleint to complete the installation before starting with another server. Any help would... (1 Reply)

5. Solaris

Hi all having a problem getting the redhat image to actually start loding and i receive a TFTP:Access Denied error after the redhat diskless machine grabs an IP from the solaris server which has a small scope set up on it. Here is what I did: used 2 redhat machines and rsync'd a to a... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have two solaris 7 machines, host1 and host2 - host2 was "created" from host1 by using ufsdump/ufsrestore. on host1 > who am i user1 pts/175 Aug 8 11:22 (192.23.128.12) on host2 > who am i user1 pts/4 Aug 8 11:19 (coscwm5643_w764.xxx.mmmm.com) what... (2 Replies)

7. Fedora

hi guys I have several Red Hat 5.7(7) all of them sync time with two NTP Servers based on Windows but the issue is I configure the NTP service, I start the ntp service and use ntpdate -u to set the time the first time This is what I do 1. Configure /etc/ntp.conf restrict default kod... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a list of clients $ cat clientlist client1 client2 client3 client4 I need a script to read these clients from a file and list the contanining policies for each client ( one client may belong to more than one policy), then I'd like to remove the client from all... (2 Replies)

9. AIX

I need to find out list of installed patches from given list of patches. I have tried using instfix -f <File containing list of patches> -i -c But I was not able to understand the output of this command. It was like below. bos.perf.tools: :0.0.0.0:?: bos.rte.libc: :0.0.0.0:?: ... (4 Replies)

10. Red Hat

Hi guys, I've been trying to set up a server for disk-less booting of remote machines on a network. The server host OS is RHEL6 and I have configured dhcp, tftp and nfs services which are proven to be working since I am able to install RHEL6 through pxe boot. Now I want it to serve for disk-less... (0 Replies)