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[Samba] how to list computers that are joined to the domain?

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This will get you workstation a domain trust accounts: pdbedit -L -w | grep ‘\[[WI]’

Using OpenVPN to export NFS in private network

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1. Follow instruction in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Openvpn to set up OpenVPN server on the gateway node of your private network, and OpenVPN client on your external nodes that need to access the NFS server inside the private network behind your OpenVPN server node; 2. Start the OpenVPN server and clients, in each client nodes, add custom route […]

Enable Java in your Firefox in RHEL4

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Once you have your Java installed, in /usr/java/jre1.6.0_29* cd /usr/lib64/firefox-3.*/plugins ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0*/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so libnpjp2.so Then restarted Firefox and once loaded, java will be working in your browser!

Remove stale nfs handle

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Have you ever tried to delete a file and noticed that it turned into a .nfs file? This is because some process still has an open file handle on this file. The .nfs file is typically named .nfs followed by a bunch of digits eg. .nfs000000000189806400000085. To identify the actually process which has the open […]

Using interactive R script in batch mode

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According to R manual, http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/fullrefman.pdf, page 411, ” Value A character vector of length one. Both leading and trailing spaces and tabs are stripped from the result. In non-interactive use the result is as if the response was RETURN and the value is “”. ” So, if you have an R script that used readline […]

RHEL6 and fedora hide user list in log in screen

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gconftool-2 –config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults –direct –type bool –set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true

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When /etc/fstab is inconsistent

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The system will drop you into a shell after  asking you root password. However, you cannot correct /etc/fstab since / is readonly. Now you need to do $ mount -o remount,rw / to enable it.  Then you are free to correct it.

When NFS4 mount as nobody:nobody

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The rpc.idmapd malfunctioned. Cure: service rpcidmapd restart Work in: RHEL6 Also, check /var/log/message of the client to see which domain it expects. If you see line as rpc.idmapd[10199]: nss_getpwnam: name ‘user@domain’ does not map into domain ‘some_domain’ you’d go to the server and add line Domain = some_domain under the [General] section of /etc/idmapd.conf and […]

Upgrade RHEL5 to RHEL6

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Redhat always recommends to reinstall from scratch for a major version upgrade of its RHEL system. However, if you have a highly customized system with plenty third party softwares and non-standard settings, even if you have a full record of all customer settings, it will still be a big job, days, and aftermath to have […]