Re: [Ilugc] openldap and Microsoft active directory

2015-07-03 Thread Balu manyam
thanks for sharing On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Balu manyam > wrote: > > Namaste all -- Has anyone worked on openldap with Microsoft AD ? I am > > searching for a way where Microsoft AD will forward the requests t

[Ilugc] openldap and Microsoft active directory

2015-05-14 Thread Balu manyam
Namaste all -- Has anyone worked on openldap with Microsoft AD ? I am searching for a way where Microsoft AD will forward the requests to openldap for specific domain ? Ideas? ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC

Re: [Ilugc] voluntary projects for learning/honing skills

2015-02-04 Thread Balu manyam
thanks for inputs -- have checked hamara web page - need to get more clarity on it - will try installing the distro datakind.org - seems to be fitting my requirements - where they are using datascience for ngos On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Vikas Tara wrote: > On 03/02/15 04:58, sa

[Ilugc] voluntary projects for learning/honing skills

2015-02-02 Thread Balu manyam
hi folks -- is there a site which has live projects which are useful to society ...on which we can work and contribute one good thing with such a thing is we can contribute to the good of society at the same time learn new IT skills ourselves thoughts? __

[Ilugc] random device enumeration after reboots

2009-04-20 Thread Balu manyam
hi folks -- thought it was worth sharing - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491432 came across this - answers some of my qs i had for a looong time - cheerio ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the

Re: [Ilugc] Good Reading: What your Linux Distro says about you..

2009-02-08 Thread Balu manyam
nice one - hence use opensolaris instead!! :) On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Bhargav Prasanna wrote: > > http://www.askreamaor.com/linux-and-unix/what-your-linux-distro-says-about-you/ > Just happened to read this. Thought I'd share it with fellow LUGGIES.. > I thought it was good. Please f

[Ilugc] linux device naming method

2008-09-26 Thread Balu manyam
this pdf seems interesting http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Re: ulimit on a running process ?

2008-08-24 Thread Balu manyam
anyone? On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Balu manyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey guys - is there any way to check whats the ulimit for no of files on a > running process in the 2.6 kernel ? > ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL

[Ilugc] ulimit on a running process ?

2008-08-23 Thread Balu manyam
hey guys - is there any way to check whats the ulimit for no of files on a running process in the 2.6 kernel ? ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/lis

Re: [Ilugc] Re: 2.6 SMP kernel -- dual core opteron processor -- irqbalance(?) - only one CPU busy always

2008-07-22 Thread Balu manyam
thanks -- i haven't found redhat support particularly helpful in the past -- they just seem to point us to one of the faqs in the kbase most of the time -- but i will try On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 22 Jul 2008, Bal

[Ilugc] Re: 2.6 SMP kernel -- dual core opteron processor -- irqbalance(?) - only one CPU busy always

2008-07-22 Thread Balu manyam
anyone? On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Balu manyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey gurus -- i have a HP server with 4*dual core AMD opteron processors > running 2.6.9-42 SMP kernel -- one of my DBAs complained of poor > performance while running an SQL query -- now wh

[Ilugc] 2.6 SMP kernel -- dual core opteron processor -- irqbalance(?) - only one CPU busy always

2008-07-21 Thread Balu manyam
hey gurus -- i have a HP server with 4*dual core AMD opteron processors running 2.6.9-42 SMP kernel -- one of my DBAs complained of poor performance while running an SQL query -- now when I check the 'mpstat -P ALL 5 ' o/p - I see that CPU 0 is completely busy (idle 0%) most of the time --

Re: [Ilugc] FTP configuration problem

2008-07-08 Thread Balu manyam
check iptables and hosts.allow also tcpdump -ni host too watch the traffic HTH On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:45 PM, indianathan n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear LUGs, >I tried to configure vsftpd server in RHEL4. After > configuration, > I tried to access ftp in firefox browser

Re: [Ilugc] re: is it correct thing to use nmap in public domain

2008-07-07 Thread Balu manyam
i remember of an experience in the past when a device could not handle zero length UDP packet from nmap scan and panicked :) - i think someone hit the nail on the head earlier in the thread - nmap use it in your own network if u want to - do not touch others ___

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (RM)

2008-06-20 Thread Balu manyam
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 20 Jun 2008, Sudharshan S wrote: > > > You forgot this, > > > >rm -rf / -- Shortcut to get yourselves fired for the rest of your > > life > > > > DISCLAIMER: Am not responsible for lost jobs now. > > Darn! you be

Re: [Ilugc] better tool than 'iostat' for i/o analysis in linux - anyone?

2008-06-19 Thread Balu manyam
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Raja Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Balu manyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > so my question to the gurus is there a powerful tool thank iostat to > help > > mesort out whats going

[Ilugc] better tool than 'iostat' for i/o analysis in linux - anyone?

2008-06-19 Thread Balu manyam
hi folks - i am having trouble catching the rabbit where i receive complaints on the performance of a rhel4 server which connects to external SAN with qlogic hbas -- i keep reading the o/p from iostat but does not get me anywhere because i am unable to correlate the values(queue depth - service ti

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CHOWN)

2008-06-19 Thread Balu manyam
> > > For the specific use case, the CLI above is fine as is, have not yet > encountered symlinks in /home for user dirs. > > -- > Arun Khan > thanks bro ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the mess

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CHOWN)

2008-06-18 Thread Balu manyam
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > > $ cd /home; chown -R usr1: usr1 > > Oops. should be > ># cd /home; chown -R usr1: usr1 > > -- > Arun Khan > > if i recall correctly one needs to be careful with -R fla

Re: [Ilugc] query regarding ethtool

2008-06-12 Thread Balu manyam
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Preetish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This depends on how much support for the MII interface is present in the > NIC > > driver in use. I have come across drivers that do not implement MII > > completely and this mii-tool is unable to show you the correct link >

Re: [Ilugc] XArgs

2008-06-07 Thread Balu manyam
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > Eureka! I scanned the man page again and found a switch "-l" which forces > > each input argument to be processed separately. Therefore, it is > > > >

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MORE)

2008-06-04 Thread Balu manyam
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 03 Jun 2008, Balu manyam wrote: > > absolutely - less is much better - it would be more helpful if one can > edit > > a file with less - so we need not use 'vi

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MORE)

2008-06-03 Thread Balu manyam
> > > the v puts the "less" buffer into the editor of your choice > vi/emacs/pico etc. (EDITOR variable). Editing capability referenced > above is within the "less" tool itself. > > -- > Arun Khan > > wow - i did not know this cheers! ___ To unsubscribe

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (MORE)

2008-06-03 Thread Balu manyam
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 03 Jun 2008, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > You beat me to it. I was about to post who uses "more" anymore? > absolutely - less is much better - it would be more helpful if one can edit a file with less - so we nee

Re: [Ilugc] Compare Linux, AIX, Mainframe

2008-05-31 Thread Balu manyam
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Shrinivasan T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Today, I was talking with a Unix(AIX) guy. > > He told me that AIX and Mainframe are the big Unixes. > Linux is like a small kid. > > He told that Mainframe is like a whale, AIX is like Elephant and Linux is > like

Re: [Ilugc] problem in running eclipse

2008-05-28 Thread Balu manyam
some xterminals read .xinitrc in ${HOME} - try specifying the env vars there HTH On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:39 PM, சுதன் | suthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i have installed eclipse in my sstem. it shows a error when i initiate it. > the error message is as follows > > A Java Runt

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] IIT offers video lectures on youtube

2008-05-28 Thread Balu manyam
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Raja Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is probably old news, but I'm sure most people are > unaware of this: > > Several IIT lectures are available for free on YouTube. > > http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=nptelhrd > > Topics range

Re: [Ilugc] Software Watchdog

2008-05-25 Thread Balu manyam
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Deepak Pandian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Luggies, > > I am hunting for a softdog(Mm software watchdog). I got busybox > running in my target and my application in it crashes once in a > while. > > I wanted to restart the system whenever the application goes

Re: [Ilugc] resize / (ext3) with no LVM(2) - using fdisk and ext2online - possible?

2008-05-24 Thread Balu manyam
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:47 PM, K Sai Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Fdisk is not the right tool for it. It only changes the partition.. > doesn't change the file system.. you will require a utility that can > also > dela with filesystem. Parted fits in well for your require

Re: [Ilugc] how to check Linux BLOCK size ?

2008-05-21 Thread Balu manyam
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:10 PM, guitar vasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Luggies, > Greatful, could you address me how to identify the eminent Linux > Operation System Block size. ( let me know the command to check the block > size) > looks like a vague question to me .. ___

Re: [Ilugc] resize / (ext3) with no LVM(2) - using fdisk and ext2online - possible?

2008-05-21 Thread Balu manyam
thanks! - fdisk on doing a 'w' with the new Partition table was lying then that the next reboot will make the kernel see the new part table . cheers! > > Have not done this myself but this > article > suggests it is possible. BTW, this

[Ilugc] resize / (ext3) with no LVM(2) - using fdisk and ext2online - possible?

2008-05-21 Thread Balu manyam
Hey gurus - I will need to expand the / FS(ext3) on my rhel3 machine - it has no LVM (meaning i am not using LVM for mounting the FS) it is installed on hda2 ..given that i have some space below this partition - is this doable from the running OS ? i already used fdisk - deleted partition 2