Tuesday 25 December 2007

Disk encryption in Fedora: Past, present and future

""The data on a stolen laptop may be far more valuable than the device itself""

Follow the link
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/01/18/disk-encryption-in-fedora-past-present-and-future/

Monday 24 December 2007

Auto logout in shell

Shell Bash
file .bash_profile
export TMOUT=60
TMOUT in seconds

Shell Csh
file .cshrc
set autologout = (VAL1 VAL2)
VAL1 The number of minutes of inactivity before automatic logout
VAL2 The number of minutes of inactivity before automatic locking will take place this is optional.

Sunday 16 December 2007

Script is not running as cron job

Be sure you set cron job right.
I assume your script is running manually.
You can check it has executed from cron
# tail -f /var/log/cron

Also check root mails to errors.
# less /var/mail/root

Probably you have environment variables problem.
You can check differences between you cron and command environment
# env > /tmp/envmanual
and put a cron job
* * * * * env > /tmp/envcron

Look for differences
# diff /tmp/env*
Put differences that you found in your script and export them.
e.g export TERM=linux

Wednesday 12 December 2007

Solaris i386 nge e1000 network settings

Look status
# dladm show-dev
nge0 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full

Set duplex speed,

ndd -set /dev/nge0 adv_1000fdx_cap 1
ndd -set /dev/nge0 adv_100fdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/nge0 adv_100hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/nge0 adv_autoneg_cap 0
1 enable related settings and 0 disable. These commands enable 1000 Full duplex.