1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello! In my perpetual quest to learn Unix, I want to build a cheap Unix server for my personal use. Do you guys have suggestions of web sites, vendors etc...where I could get info on things such as step-by-step instruction, 2nd hand hardware etc... I would like to go preferably with a HP... (2 Replies)

2. HP-UX

Hi, I have installed HP-UX 11.31 on a rx6600 box. The installation went fine and was completed without any errors. But wheni connect to the server using ssh, it asks for a username, when i enter it, it doesnt prompt for a password: login:username blank-------- All i could see in... (1 Reply)

3. Web Development

Hello everyone, I would like to setup a lamp server from a minimal distro and to compile PHP, MySQL and Apache myself. I have chosen CentOS minimal for the OS and I am trying to build the stack by hand... But well, it appears I need some help! First: I am looking for good and recent... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Subject: What does it takes to build a mail server, its just for fun and learning. Am bad at being techinical, so in short, how to create a gmail-like thing? I have a registered domain, and want to setup a mail server. Have a spare laptop that is running Ubuntu 12.04. What I need to know is,... (4 Replies)

5. Red Hat

We have RHEL 5.8 in our environment, I had a query whether we can implement an FTP server using vsftpd package and Linux configurations like setsebool without using any external FTP clients like FileZilla etc. I am very confused on this. The FTP functionalities that should be present are download &... (3 Replies)

6. Solaris

I need to boot again a server with solaris 8 because I have a problem with the file path_to_install and I have not a CD/DVD driver. So I'd like to build an install server for executing a boot by network. Could I use a server with solaris 10? Many thanks for your suggests Best Regards at... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Dear All, I'm using AWS EC2 instance for my application. My application is high disk I/O based and EFS could not be used in my case. So, i need to build my own NFS server on Ec2 instance. I'm looking for High availability solution for my disk which i shared for NFS. Looking for builtin... (5 Replies)

8. Red Hat

I am relatively new to Linux and we are getting ready to convert our current oracle database servers from the AIX platform to RHEL7 servers on VMWare. I would appreciate any advice on how best to allocate storage to these machines. I plan on using LVM to maintain the disks/filesystems but am... (9 Replies)