We were trying to install a QLogic card and it’s drivers on one of our SLES11 servers this morning and mkinitrd kept barking at us: lebsvn2:/boot/grub # mkinitrd -v Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.19-5-default Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.27.19-5-default Root device: /dev/root (mounted on / as ext3) Resume device: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHZ2080_K85CT9925KBH-part3 (/dev/sda3) Device root not found in sysfs […]
A friend of mine, Tony Krch, wrote this nearly ten years ago and I’ve used it ever since. When ever I edit a system config file, like /etc/named.conf, I first do cd /etc backup resolv.conf Then I edit. The backup script makes a copy using “cp -a” of the file, puts it in a sub-directory […]
We bought a real SSL cert for our OpenSSO server. That means I need to “install it” on the Glassfishv2 installation that runs the OpenSSO app. The new cert came with three other certs, that I now understand are the “chain” that legitimize our cert by associating it (somehow) with the external authority. After much […]
At work, we have many Unix and Linux systems, so we use NIS to coordinate the authentication and authorization of users. One of our Unix groups has so many members that the older Unix systems can’t “see” them all. So, we split up the membership into a set of entries in the /etc/group file that […]