May 7, 2010

Linux – Ethernet bonding

Linux General,

Linux bond or team multiple network interfaces (NIC) into single interface We have two Dell servers that need setup with Intel Dual Gig NIC. My idea is to improve performance...

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May 7, 2010

Linux – Tweaks

Linux General,

Fork Bomb on Linux/Unix: Q. Explain following bash code or bash fork() bomb? : () { : | :& };: A. This is a bash function. It gets called recursively...

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March 24, 2010

How to identify CPU resource problem?

Linux/Windows Support,

vmstat command helps us to determine if a server is running short of CPU resources. First, let us determine the number of CPUs available Linux: $ grep -i processor /proc/cpuinfo...

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March 16, 2010

Extract the contents of an RPM

Linux General,

Using rpm2cpio command, the contents of an RPM package can be extracted without having to install the package. For source RPMs too this command can be used. This is illustrated...

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March 16, 2010

Nagios Installation and Configuration

Server Management,

Nagios Installation in Ubuntu Required Packages Install the following packages on슠 Ubuntu before continuing. Apache 2 PHP GCC compiler and development libraries GD development libraries If not installed, using apt-get...

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March 16, 2010

Nagios – An Introduction

Server Management,

What is Nagios? Nagios is a framework for setting up monitoring of hosts, services, and networks . What are the components of Nagios? nagios the main server software and...

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March 16, 2010

Firewall – Reject or Drop a packet

Linux/Windows Support,

Firewall Reject or Drop a packet While setting up firewall rules, the biggest question that arises while blocking a packet is, whether to reject or drop that packet. Reject...

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March 16, 2010

HTTP Response Status Codes information

HTTP/WebServer,

The HTTP status codes are divided into categories based on the first digit in the code Code Category Type Code Category Type 1nn Informational 2nn Success 3nn Redirection 4nn Client...

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March 13, 2010

Difference between Buffer and Cache

Linux General,

Buffers are allocated by various processes to use as input queues, etc. Most of the time, buffers are some processes' output, and they are file buffers. A simplistic explanation of...

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March 13, 2010

Memory Usage in Linux

Linux General,

Check the memory usage on a linux system with the command given below. The free command helps in getting the memory usage in the system [rams@stopprepare-lx ~]$ free -m total...

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