Hot to restart NFS in AIX

Here’s a quick guide to start, stop the NFS service in AIX. To stop the NFS service run, stopsrc -g nfs and to that the NFS service run, startsrc -g nfs To re-exports all shares or new share specified in the “exports” file run, exportfs -av

2009-07-30 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

RIP Yasmin Ahmad, you will be missed

Another good person has left us. Yasmin Ahmad, the woman who broke racial boundaries through her wonderful ads, books and movies is no more. Yasmin left us at 11.25pm last night after spending 2 days in ICU. She suffered a stroke and brain haemorrhage. Source: NST | Abinesh

2009-07-25 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Facebook allows username change

Not too long ago Facebook introduced usernames. A feature that made your Facebook profile URL more meaningful. However, at the time Facebook only allowed only one user name change. So if you chose a bad user name like these people did, you just had to suck it up and live with your mistake. Fortunately Facebook had a change of mind and now users can change their user name. Changing the user name is done from the “Account Settings” page under “Username”. However, Facebook is still not opening up the flood gates. You may only change your user name once so make sure to choose wisely this time. ...

2009-07-24 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Yasmin Ahmad : Press Conference

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wy0uwZ6OWQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Plea from Yasmin’s family urging the public to give Yasmin and her family privacy and space through this hard time. Hope everyone will respect this. Stay up to date on Yasmin’s condition on twiiter. Taken from Delirium

2009-07-24 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

How to setup an OpenSSH Server on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Here’s a simple walkthrough to setup an OpenSSH server on Jaunty together with 2 basic hardening options you should apply. Install the OpenSSH server. Fire up a console and run the command below. This will install the required binaries and packages for the OpenSSH server. apt-get install openssh-server Get some basic hardening in by disabling “root” login and restricting access to specific accounts. All changes are to the “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” configuration file. vi the “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” file and apply the changes below. ...

2009-07-23 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan