Boot with VGA mode in solaris
Solaris may not have VGA enabled in the grub boot, which means you will only have the serial console to work with. A blank screen […]
Month: May 2011
End-of-central-directory signature not found
When unzipping a file you may get the following error: You will need to use the “gunzip” command rather than “unzip”. Alternatively you can gunzip […]
See open files in Windows Server 2008
In windows server 2008 it is possible to see how man open files there currently are on the system. This is useful if you need […]
Prevent ssh shell access for sftp user
In Linux it is not easily apparent as to how to prevent someone from having ssh shell access into a machine you intend to give […]
building jfreechart using ant in linux
To build ant in linux download the jfreechart package. Now you will need to build it using ant. If you don’t have ant installed you […]
Compile Handbrake in Linux
We get the following error when compiling handbrake in linux First install yasm, you can get it from here: http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.1.0.tar.gz Also install subversion and the […]
share nfs solaris specific ip
To share an nfs share in Solaris 10 modify the /etc/dfs/dfstab file and add the following share command You can specify and IP/netmask to share. […]
compile gridftp
The globus toolkit has many tools available. And you may find it necessary to install just a subset of them, gridftp in particular. To just […]
memory usage for a process linux
You can find out how much memory a process in linux is using by using the “top” command. While top is running interactively use “shift […]
Restart NFS in Solaris
There are a couple ways you can restart the nfs service in solaris. 1) Use the svcadm command 2) Use the init.d script for nfs […]