In many cases, the GRUB boot loader can mistakenly be deleted, corrupted, or replaced by other operating systems. The following steps detail the process on how GRUB is reinstalled on the master boot record: Boot the system from an installation boot medium. Type linux rescue at the installation boot prompt to enter the rescue environment…
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Cloud computing can be confused with: grid computing—”a form of distributed computing whereby a ‘super and virtual computer’ is composed of a cluster of networked, loosely coupled computers, acting in concert to…
MySQL Table Maintenance.
This morning I was asked by one of the other Engineers in my group about an easy way to analyze all the tables in a database. So I pointed him to mysqlcheck. Which is a great command line client for performing table mainteneance on mysql database tables. It checks, repairs, optimizes, or analyzes tables, all…
Unfreezing media in Netbackup on Solaris.
Here is something you don’t use everyday or at least I don’t. 🙂 First find the frozen media IDs. shell>/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media | grep FROZEN A00060 HCART3 TLD 1 37 – 1 0 FROZEN –snip– Then unfreeze them with this command xenical otc. shell> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedia -unfreeze -m A00060
Configuring YUM to use a Proxy Server.
There are two basic ways that you can configure YUM to use a proxy server. First is by editing the yum.conf file pop over to this web-site. The yum.conf is usually localed in the /etc directory. You will need to add couple of parameters depending on your proxy configuration. 1.) The first parameter is to…
My First Post
So here’s the story; I’m horrible at grammar, spelling and pretty much anything else to do with the English language, but I decided to start a blog anyway. Foolish human.. 🙂 This will be a pretty boring blog to most of you since it will be a technical blog, with a few rants from yours…