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Linux and UNIX HOW-TO: Setup a basic OpenLDAP Client and Server

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Hamdan

The topic of LDAP seems to be little bit complicated at the beginning, so we will start with a simple example to for demonstration purposes. We will use two machines in this example: a client and a server, both running … Continue reading →

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Linux and UNIX HOW-TO: Create simple master and slave DNS Servers

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Hamdan

The procedure below can be used with any UNIX/LINUX flavor. All the machines in this example are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. For simplicity purposes, we will assume the server will resolve names on the LAN: 192.168.0.1/24, and the … Continue reading →

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Solaris HOW-TO: Enable/Disable FTP Logging

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Hamdan

To enable/disable FTP logging in Solaris 10, the “inetadm” utility can be used for that. First, list the properties of the ftp service: root@hamdan # inetadm -l svc:/network/ftp SCOPE NAME=VALUE name=”ftp” endpoint_type=”stream” proto=”tcp6″ isrpc=FALSE wait=FALSE exec=”/usr/sbin/in.ftpd -a” user=”root” default bind_addr=”" … Continue reading →

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Solaris HOW-TO: Check Network Interfaces

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Hamdan

In Solaris 10, to know how many network interfaces the system has, use the command “dladm show-dev”. For example: # dladm show-dev e1000g0 link: down speed: 0 Mbps duplex: half e1000g1 link: unknown speed: 0 Mbps duplex: half e1000g2 link: … Continue reading →

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