Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Category
Today we are going to go through the process of creating a clustered file system on a pair of Oracle Linux 6.3 nodes. This exercise is not very resource intensive. I am using two VMs each with 1GB of RAM a single CPU and a shared virtual disk file in addition to the OS drivers. [...]
Recently I have been spending some time learning about database technologies (Oracle Databases at Keste as well as MySQL on my own). Part of this I have decided to carry over into my existing work with Solaris, and go through the installation process using the Image Packaging System which is in Solaris. Now really the [...]
In Part One we went over the basics of sudo, what it is, why we use it, and how it is used properly. In this article we are going to take it a step further and look at specific use cases for sudo. The key thing to remember though, is that you have two ways [...]
What is Sudo? Prior to sudo whenever you wanted to run a command as a specific user then you would su (switch user) to gain access to a shell for that user. This of course required that you knew the password for that user, and it would spawn a new shell after successful authentication. The [...]
The past couple of weeks I have been dealing with a fairly aggravating issue at home. My wife has a Windows 7 laptop which for some reason started printing everything repeatedly (repeatedly being defined as forever and ever until the bottom of the paper tray was found). Our printer in particular is a HP Laserjet [...]