Thursday, October 13, 2016

We moved to new domain!! kerneltalks.com

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  • Howdy readers! We have moved to new domain www.kerneltalks.com . If you have bookmarked this blog please update new URL. See yaa there!

    Friday, October 7, 2016

    How to check bad wrong login attempts in HPUX

    Requirement : To check bad / wrong login attempts done on HPUX server. Howto : HPUX server logs all wrong logins information in  /var/... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Requirement : To check bad / wrong login attempts done on HPUX server. Howto : HPUX server logs all wrong logins information in  /var/...

    Thursday, October 6, 2016

    Adding extra or secondary swap in HPUX

    Freeimages When system runs low on memory and swap continuously, its time to troubleshoot. Even after troubleshooting and all available ... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Freeimages When system runs low on memory and swap continuously, its time to troubleshoot. Even after troubleshooting and all available ...

    Wednesday, October 5, 2016

    Adding new storage LUN to integrity virtual machine (iVM) in HPUX

    Steps to add new LUN into integrity virtual machine (iVM) in HPUX and use it within existing VG or create a new VG on it.In this process, s... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Steps to add new LUN into integrity virtual machine (iVM) in HPUX and use it within existing VG or create a new VG on it.In this process, s...

    Tuesday, October 4, 2016

    HPUX Patch naming conventions

    HP release OS patches for HPUX every 6 month i.e. twice a year. For smaller patches which are releases as on need basis HP follows below na... thumbnail 1 summary
  • HP release OS patches for HPUX every 6 month i.e. twice a year. For smaller patches which are releases as on need basis HP follows below na...

    Monday, October 3, 2016

    Basics of LVM legends

    LVM (logical volume manager) legends : PV is Physical Volume.   Any single disk / LUN on system is identified as PV. It can be raw or f... thumbnail 1 summary
  • LVM (logical volume manager) legends : PV is Physical Volume.   Any single disk / LUN on system is identified as PV. It can be raw or f...

    Sunday, October 2, 2016

    Account lock unlock status in Linux

    Requirement : To check current password status of account in Linux Solution : 1. To check if account is locked or not. Below are two ... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Requirement : To check current password status of account in Linux Solution : 1. To check if account is locked or not. Below are two ...

    Saturday, October 1, 2016

    Password file commands

    Here are the list of commands which can be used on /etc/passwd file. vipw This command is being used to edit /etc/passwd file manually... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Here are the list of commands which can be used on /etc/passwd file. vipw This command is being used to edit /etc/passwd file manually...

    Friday, September 30, 2016

    UID range in hpux

    UID is user identification number in kernel. UID distribution on HPUX system is as below : 0 : root user 1 to 100 : System accounts ... thumbnail 1 summary
  • UID is user identification number in kernel. UID distribution on HPUX system is as below : 0 : root user 1 to 100 : System accounts ...

    HPUX boot process

    Its not fully detailed boot process. Its very short form of things happens during boot. To make it understand and remember (for interviews) ... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Its not fully detailed boot process. Its very short form of things happens during boot. To make it understand and remember (for interviews) ...

    Thursday, September 29, 2016

    Run levels in HPUX at a glance

    Current run level in HPUX can be identified using below command : # who -r    .       run-level 3  Jan 19 21:14    3    0    S The out... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Current run level in HPUX can be identified using below command : # who -r    .       run-level 3  Jan 19 21:14    3    0    S The out...

    Wednesday, September 28, 2016

    How to restart NFS in HPUX

    Requirement : To restart NFS server in HPUX How to do it : Please make a note that all exported NFS mount points will be unavailable t... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Requirement : To restart NFS server in HPUX How to do it : Please make a note that all exported NFS mount points will be unavailable t...

    Tuesday, September 27, 2016

    bdf command formatted output in hpux

    Requirement : bdf command output normally looks scattered especially when VG names are long. It will be difficult to grep out proper patt... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Requirement : bdf command output normally looks scattered especially when VG names are long. It will be difficult to grep out proper patt...

    Monday, September 26, 2016

    How to change sender's email id in EMS HPUX

    Requirement : Normally in Event monitoring system on HPUX send an emails with sender id as root@ hostnam e. Many organizations email serve... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Requirement : Normally in Event monitoring system on HPUX send an emails with sender id as root@ hostnam e. Many organizations email serve...

    Friday, September 23, 2016

    How to generate CSR file for SSL request on Linux

    CSR is Certificate Signing Request file. It will be generated on server on which the SSL certificate will be used. This file contains detai... thumbnail 1 summary
  • CSR is Certificate Signing Request file. It will be generated on server on which the SSL certificate will be used. This file contains detai...