If you have a problem of frequent disconnection from your SSH server, you can enable the following setting in your sshd_config file and restart SSHD.
ClientAliveInterval 60
The exact description of what this does is
ClientAliveInterval
Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has
been received from the client, sshd will send a message through
the encrypted [...]
I hadn’t used screen much in the past but I see that it is a very handy tool. I just would like to add some tips about screen command.
Ctrl-a c : creates a new screen shell
Ctrl-a TAB: switches focues between upper and lower split terminal
Ctrl-a “ : Display a list of managed windows. (This is [...]
You can find quite a lot of files in /etc/sysconfig however in configuring them you may have trouble but there is a file that you can use to understand what attributes you can use for each file. It is sysconfig.txt. In my current Redhat 5.4 system the file is at the following location as it [...]
One day you may have to install an RPM file into a different root folder. For example under rescue mode though you can chroot as an option. Here is the handy option for you to do it.
#rpm -ivh zip-2.31-2.el5.i386.rpm –root /mnt/sysimage
In the event that partition table is corrupted or boot loader has gone, here are some steps that you can take in order to boot the system as normal.
I hope that you have taken the backup of partition table previously with the command;
#sfdisk -d /dev/sda > /root/sda_partition_table.out
Or if you also want to backup the whole [...]
This article is about to configure NIS server and NIS client in a redhat base distribution. I know that NIS isn’t the preferred method of authentication anymore but I wanted to add this short NIS document along with autofs usage so that when any user logs in, their homedirectories at the remote NFS server will [...]
Software raid configuration is quite easy and within a few minutes you can start building your array. Depending on the size of the array, build time may vary. Here is a quick instruction about how you can use mdadm utility to create a raid 1 array.
We have two partitions of the size 512MB in two [...]
I am sure most system administrators don’t want to waste their time by entering the same passwords everyday for every server. Here SSH utilities comes with lovely flavoured tools. In this article, I will try to explain how we can login to remote systems without using password at all or once in a day.
In this [...]