Hi,

I recently installed freebsd 8.2 on my lap, its very good experience using this OS. I had simple issue after installation. While doing ssh to FreeBSD installed on vmware I came up with above error.

Which clearly states that issue is with authentication , which we need to configure in ssh service.

We need to add below three options in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PermitRootLogin yes 
PasswordAuthentication yes 
AllowUsers root


Thats it, we are done , now we can ssh to FreeBSD installed in vmware, one common mistake I did ,was adding these above lines in /etc/ssh/ssh_config.

So there are 2 files in /etc/ssh/ directory i.e /etc/ssh/ssh_config & /etc/ssh/sshd_config


We are suppose to configure above 3 options in sshd_config  then only it will work like charm!

Regards,
Girish

Hi,


While working on RHEL5 installed on VMWARE I got this error restarting network service.

Little bit around 1 min I noticed that Ethernet option for VMWARE is off !!! that's the reason RHEL5 thrown this error.
 










Regards,
Girish

Hi All,


Actually its very basic mistake, in such type of errors if you have http repository setup, check once if http url is accessible from client or not.


If not accessible the probably problem with http service, but if accessible then ? ? ? ?

Then problem was very simple, it was wrong baseurl in /etc/yum.repos.d/yumconf.repo file

Here is sample of wrong configuration :

[root@station2 ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/yumrepos.repo
[Server]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug
basurl=http://192.168.152.130/Server
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

Error was quite simple, instead of "baseurl" it is "basurl"

Correct it and your problem will be solved quickly!!!

Regards,
Girish

Hi,

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Vista activation : Download

Thanks & Regards,
Girish...

Hi,

Those who working as a linux administrator may have came across Quarterly Review Task (QRTask).
Its gathering of information about server after every 4 months. We generally perform QRTASK's its very easy to do, and here are few of important commands used for QRTASK :

You can save below lines as shell script with .sh extension :
-----------------------------------------------------------


echo ---------------------------------------
echo "Server Name"
echo ---------------------------------------
hostname

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "Server Model"
echo ---------------------------------------
dmidecode | grep -m1 "Product Name"

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "System Firmware Revision"
echo ---------------------------------------
dmidecode -s bios-version

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "OS Type"
echo ---------------------------------------
uname -a


echo --------------------------------------
echo "HBA"
echo --------------------------------------
lspci |grep -i -e fib -e hba

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "OS Backups"
echo ---------------------------------------
cat /proc/mdstat

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "System INformation"
echo ---------------------------------------
dmidecode -t system


echo ---------------------------------------
echo "BIOS Information"
echo ---------------------------------------
dmidecode -t bios

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "Processor INformation"
echo ---------------------------------------
dmidecode -t processor





echo ---------------------------------------
echo "CPU information"
echo ---------------------------------------
cat /proc/cpuinfo
           
echo ---------------------------------------
echo "MEMORY-USAGE"
echo ---------------------------------------
cat /proc/meminfo  

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "SWAP"
echo ---------------------------------------
swapon -s

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "I/O throughput"
echo ---------------------------------------
iostat




echo ---------------------------------------
echo "Disk Space"
echo ---------------------------------------
df -h

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "FIRMWARE REVISION"
echo ---------------------------------------
dmidecode --type bios




echo ---------------------------------------
echo "NETWORK INTERFACES"
echo ---------------------------------------

ifconfig | grep eth


echo ---------------------------------------
echo "NETWORK-INFORMATION"
echo ---------------------------------------

ethtool eth0;ethtool eth1;ethtool eth2;ethtool eth3


echo ---------------------------------------
echo "PATCH-LIST"
echo ---------------------------------------
rpm -qa>rpm.txt

echo ---------------------------------------
echo "User List"
echo ---------------------------------------
cat /etc/passwd

Hi ,

This posts are not for advanced users as they all know these common issues.
I came across this issue regarding NFS automount in my office.
I checked o/p of : df -h but nfs share was not shown in o/p

We though that issue might be from Server end d wanted to check nfs server side , but one thing I didn't know was when we perform AUTO-MOUNTING of NFS share , unless user request for share it is not mounted on specified directory , and that is why client tool was generating message like "share XXX not mounted on XXX"

Finally we suppressed that alarm and now its working fine. :)

Thanks & Regards,
Girish...

It’s pretty obvious that Google + is a threat to Facebook’s ever-growing base of users. The reason behind it is that Google + seems to be pretty much a Google version of a Facebook upgrade.

Well Facebook ain’t letting Google get their way that easy. What does Facebook have that Google doesn’t?

Data of your established Facebook friends, contact numbers, email addresses, etcetera. For Facebook and Google who already have established systems and working business models, data means users – and users means money.

Right now Google ‘owns’ most of the web. They’re the biggest player. And being the biggest player, you want a piece of everyone else’s pie. We all know that Google tried to go social more than once or twice. And failed.

The thing I love about Google is that they are not afraid to fail – even fail big. They still try to win. And this time, it certainly looks like Google is going to make it.

Now that the Google + Project is out for a limited amount of users, it has alarmed Facebook that Google might just eat up some of their share of the social network market. So what did they do?

There used to be an extension in Google Chrome named ‘Facebook Friend Exporter” that you can use to export your Facebook contact details – Name, Email Address, Phone number, etc…

That extension still exists. But it no longer works – because Facebook blocked it out.

In essence, Facebook blocked YOU out.

Yahoo even reports it in their Yahoo news.

But don’t worry because the author of the Facebook Friend Exporter Chome plugin promises a new version with a different design. He says it is currently undergoing deployment but you would have to do exports daily.

So now you can’t get your Facebook data using that extension. All this because they were afraid that their users might want their data, export it and import it to Google so that they could try Google +. It’s a pretty immature thing to do. But that’s that and you can’t really blame Facebook if they’re afraid of Google eating up a piece of the social network pie.

A company that has failed many times has more chances of getting it right the next time around. Facebook has all the reasons to be scared of the Google + Project.

You can still download your Facebook contacts by using the Yahoo Importer. This importer lets you download all your Facebook contacts into Yahoo if you click the Facebook icon. And from there, you can export your Facebook and Yahoo contacts to a CSV file (executable in Mircorsoft Excel) and voila! You’ve got your Facebook contacts with you.

If you’re looking to try Google + someday, you can simply import all your contacts from Yahoo and Facebook into your Google contacts by using that CSV file in Google’s importer. How?

Go to your Gmail account then on the upper left corner just below Mail, click on Contacts. A new left sidebar panel will appear and in it, you will see the Import Contacts option. Click on it and a pop-up will open for you to import any CSV file with your contacts in it.

I highly suggest that you export your Facebook data now before they block out Yahoo Importer too. It’s your data anyway – supposedly. Download it for backup or for future use. Things change and Facebook might not be a ‘Forever’ trend in the web.

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