linux server: leif

solaris client: sisu

export the shares on leif to sisu and then exportfs -r

add an entry in /etc/hosts.allow on leif

on sisu modify the file /etc/auto_master and add the line

/- auto_direct

in /etc/auto_direct add lines like

/home -rw leif:/home

reboot and celebrate

if that is working its now time to set up nis to get remote logins

first set up the domainname in /etc/defaultdomain and use the domainname tool to set it

Create a directory named /var/yp/binding/domain

3. If you want the NIS client to broadcast for a NIS server (note: there must be a NIS server on your subnet), start NIS with /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart. If you want to manually specify one or more NIS server(s) to use, run ypinit -c and then /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart. Note that each manually specified NIS server must have an entry in ... Read More

when the sun tech installed the hard drive array he made one big 4TB partition. when i finally made my mind up about which size quota to give each user i realized that i needed to have a separate partition for the quotas. i used lvm to resize the partition and created an additional partition for the mail server to use. in /etc/fstab there needed to be an option to enable usrquota. after any changes are made to fstab the partitions need to be remounted. once this is done the quota files need to be generated. use the command “time /sbin/quotacheck -vguma” after the quota files have been set up, the quotas need to be set for all users

[root@babbage space1]# time /sbin/quotacheck -vguma quotacheck: Scanning /dev/mapper/volgroup1-homedirs [/space1] quotacheck: Cannot stat old user quota file: No such file or directory quotacheck: Old group file not found. Usage will not be ... Read More

I am responsible for imaging all the linux workstations this summer and i was trying to make it more personal this time. Usually they are all default installations where a lot of stuff doesn’t work the right way. This time i want to put a lot of effort into it and do it right. One of the small things i wanted was a boot theme like i saw at LSU. I choose centOS because of the long term support it offered and the targeted use. centOS uses a program called rhgb, Red Hat Graphical Boot, to display the start up sequence on boot. I was able to easily change the images and i was able to get my schools logo and seal on there but i would like to have the colors match as well. Right now the background is the centOS blue, which if i cant change, will become ... Read More