cstan.io
open-menu closeme
Home
whoami
Hardware icon
Current Historie Homelab Keebs Retro
Publications
🌐
German English
github mastodon linkedin ko-fi rss
  • Short tip: create screenshots under HP-UX

    calendar Oct 12, 2013 · 1 min read · hp-ux kurztipp  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy

    If you want to create a screenshot of your HP-UX system and don't have GIMP installed, you can easily create a X dump using the xwd commandos. This X dump can be converted into a JPG file (or some other picture format) on another machine using XnView.

    After executing the xwd command simply click on the window for the …


    Read More
  • There's life in the old dog yet - HP Integrity RX2600 EFI Unexpected TRAP

    calendar Sep 17, 2013 · 3 min read · hp hp-ux  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy
    A couple of months ago I installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a dedicated hard drive of my HP Integrity RX2600 servers. Because the installation programm doesn't support the native Management Processor console I had to connect a screen, keyboard and mouse to the device. The installation worked like a charm and after a …
    Read More
  • Short tip: Disable IPv6 completely under RHEL / CentOS

    calendar Sep 6, 2013 · 1 min read · kurztipp  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy

    Use the following commands to completely disable IPv6 under RHEL / CentOS up to version 6:

    1# echo "options ipv6 disable=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/ipv6.conf
    2# chkconfig ip6tables off
    3# shutdown -r now
    

    A module parameter prohibits IPv6 functionality after the next reboot. If this value wasn't set, some services …


    Read More
  • Persistent txqueuelen network parameter using udev

    calendar Aug 21, 2013 · 2 min read  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy

    txqueuelen is one of many configurable networking parameters. This paremeter defines the queue size in which the kernel stores data before it is sent over the network. By default this parameter has a value of 1000 - depending on your application you might want to increase this value using ifconfig or ip:

    1# ifconfig …

    Read More
  • Software and configuration management made easy using RPM

    calendar Jun 30, 2013 · 18 min read  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy
    If you're maintaining multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems (or equivalent offsets like CentOS or Scientific Linux) your administration work with the particular hosts will gain in a routine. Because even the best administrator might forget something it would be advantageously to have a central software and …
    Read More
  • Eject all CD-ROMs in a VMware cluster

    calendar Jun 18, 2013 · 3 min read · esxi powercli  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy

    Every VMware administration knows the following issue - the cluster needs to patched and so the particular nodes need to be rebooted. Fortunately this doesn't bother the users working on the farm becuase the virtual machines can be moved "online" between the cluster nodes.

    There might be a little show stopper …


    Read More
  • High-availability ad absurdum - instant messenger cluster using DRBD and Finch (Pidgin)

    calendar May 9, 2013 · 15 min read · debian raspberry-pi  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy
    It is often unjustifiable said that implementing high-availability under Linux is way too complex. Of course you will have to be patient while spending some time in learning the required basics - but all this is feasible for an experienced administrator (or someone who wants to be such an administrator some day). This …
    Read More
  • iOS and IPCop/IPFire OpenVPN

    calendar May 2, 2013 · 2 min read · ios ipcop ipfire openvpn  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy

    <img
      loading="lazy"
      decoding="async"
      alt="OpenVPN-Profile"
      
        class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed"
        src="https://cstan.io/images/2013/05/1-Profile.jpg"
      
      
    />
    
    </picture>
    

    OpenVPN …


    Read More
  • Default gateway ignored under RHEL / CentOS 5.3

    calendar Apr 23, 2013 · 1 min read  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy

    On RHEL or CentOS 5.3 it is possible that a noticed default gateway is ignored. In this case the routing table doesn't contain any appropriate entry...

    1# netstat -r|grep default
    

    ...even if the gateway was noticed both in the main network configuration...

    1# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
    2...
    3GATEWAY=10.24.36.1
    

    ...and …


    Read More
  • CDE under Debian Squeeze

    calendar Apr 15, 2013 · 2 min read · cde retro  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy
    Many administrators or IT enthusiasts still might know Common Desktop Environment (CDE) from old UNIX days. Introduced in 1993, it was Unix's standard desktop for HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris and Tru64 for more than 10 years. Even if Solaris dropped its CDE support 3 years ago, the old desktop is still used in HP-UX, …
    Read More
    • ««
    • «
    • 24
    • 25
    • 26
    • 27
    • 28
    • »
    • »»

Christian Stankowic photo

Christian Stankowic

Virtualization, Linux and IaC
Read More

Recent Posts

  • SUSECON 2025
  • Use Twinkly offline with Home Assistant
  • First experiences with Uyuni and SUSE Manager Podman images
  • SUBSCRIBE 11
  • Uyuni/SUSE Manager: Error synchronizing Oracle Linux 8 YUM repositories
  • FrOSCon 2024
  • SUSECON 2024
  • Red Hat Summit 2024

Categories

XING 278 OSBN-UBUNTUUSERS 237 LINUX 133 RHEL 73 VMWARE 46 HARDWARE 23 UNIX 23 WINDOWS 14 ANDROID 13 SUSE 13 NAGIOSICINGA 12 ETC 8 DEVELOPMENT 4 NETZWERK 4
All Categories
ANDROID13 ARCHLINUX1 AUTO1 CRUX3 DEVELOPMENT4 ETC8 FOTOGRAFIE1 HARDWARE23 KURZTIPP1 LINUX133 NAGIOSICINGA12 NETZWERK4 OPENVMS3 OSBN-UBUNTUUSERS237 RHEL73 SUSE13 UNIX23 VMWARE46 WINDOWS14 XING278
[A~Z][0~9]

Series

RHASSPY 4 KATELLO 2

Tags

KURZTIPP 95 SUSE-MANAGER 28 SPACEWALK 25 RED-HAT-SATELLITE 24 RASPBERRY-PI 15 ESXI 14 CONFERENCE 12 ANSIBLE 11 HP-UX 11 VCSA 11 KATELLO 10 RED-HAT-SATELLITE-6 10 HP 9 MACOS 8
All Tags
ALP2 AMDGPU2 ANSIBLE11 APPIMAGE1 APRIL2 CDE1 CHEF1 CISCO2 CLOUD-FOUNDRY1 CONFERENCE12 DEBIAN6 DELL3 DEVOPS1 DOCKER3 ESP82661 ESXI14 FAIL2 FEDORA6 FLATPAK1 FREEIPA7 GITEA1 GITHUB1 GITLAB7 GRAFANA2 GUACAMOLE1 HOME-ASSISTANT1 HP9 HP-UX11 HTC-SENSE1 ICINGA7 ICINGA-DIRECTOR2 ICINGA24 INSPEC1 IOS1 IPCOP3 IPFIRE4 ITANIUM1 KATELLO10 KNOPPIX1 KONFERENZ5 KUBERNETES1 KURZTIPP95 LANDSCAPE2 LVM2 MACOS8 MECHANICAL-KEYBOARD1 NAGIOS7 NAS1 NETIO1 NEXTCLOUD2 NEXUS2 NODE-RED3 OMD4 OPENVPN2 ORACLE3 PACEMAKER1 PHP2 PINEBOOK-PRO1 PODCAST1 PODMAN4 POPOS3 POWERCLI2 POWERSHELL1 PROXMOX3 PUPPET2 RASPBERRY-PI15 RASPBIAN6 RED-HAT-IDENTITY-MANAGEMENT7 RED-HAT-SATELLITE24 RED-HAT-SATELLITE-610 RETRO4 RHASSPY2 ROM3 RPM2 SALT2 SELINUX3 SLES5 SNAP1 SOLARIS2 SPACEWALK25 SUSE-MANAGER28 TERRAFORM1 THINKPAD4 UBUNTU3 UYUNI6 VAGRANT4 VCSA11 VRO2 VSAN3 WORDPRESS5 WSL1
[A~Z][0~9]
cstan.io

Copyright 2008-  CSTAN.IO. All Rights Reserved - Disclaimer

to-top