At work, I (Greg Porter) have a lot of students (hundreds) that need to use ssh to log into a couple of unix hosts. Most of the students use one particular host, vogon.csc.calpoly.edu. When vogon gets busy, or fork bombed,… Continue Reading
An associate and I (Greg Porter) have started a new web site, NetworkScripting.org, where we will chronicle all the fancy tricks we do with Unix/Linux/Active Directory integration, providing unified home directories to Unix/Linux/Windows clients using Solaris with ZFS, NFS and… Continue Reading
Cuesta College, one of the places I (Greg Porter) teach, only allows you to access your cuesta.edu email 2 ways. You can use their web based Outlook Web Access, which looks really lame and clunky if you’re not using Internet… Continue Reading
I (Greg Porter) said in an earlier post that we were using CentOS5 with a Sun Storedge 3511 SATA Array to serve up NFSv4 home directories to Linux clients and SAMBA home directories to Windows users. In benchmarks this setup… Continue Reading
Or anything… It’s just been busy, really busy at work. But we have gotten: Fedora 7 and CentOS 5 to authenticate against Active Directory A CentOS 5 linux server to serve up home directories (including roving profiles) to Linux, Unix,… Continue Reading
We have 2 Sun StorEdge 35XX disk arrays. Two Solaris hosts are directly attached to a Sun StorEdge 3510 Fibre Channel Array. One linux host has a similar Sun StorEdge 3511 Fibre Channel Array. The 3510 uses 10K RPM FC… Continue Reading
Here’s my quick notes on getting SRSS 4, Beta Update 2 (the latest) running on Centos 4.4.
Recently Professor Diana Franklin was awarded an NSF grant to build a small high performance computing cluster here on campus. As the “friendly neighborhood system administrator” I volunteered to help build and run it. We chose UCSD’s Rocks Linux based… Continue Reading
Currently I support thousands of users on hundreds of machines in a mixed Unix and Windows environment. The legacy environment has 2 separate systems to administer user accounts. On Unix, we still (!?!) use plain old NIS. For Windows, we… Continue Reading
Nagios is a system monitoring tool that runs on Unix/Linux platforms, but will monitor practically anything – Unix, Windows, databases, environmental/HVAC, you name it. Nagios is good, and works well – but it isn’t easy to configure.