Archive for the ‘ Linux ’ Category
Ok, so just this past week I think I’ve gone a bit crazy with the certification exam bookings. I booked myself in for two linux certifications which I was due to take yesterday. I say “due” because when I actually got to the place where the exam was meant to be “Professional Computer College, 85-89 [ READ MORE ]
So I’ve been working with a very strict firewall on an AIX host which is mouting an NFS share on Red Hat 5.3 hosts and since NFSD on Red Hat utilises the RPC protocol (port 111) and NFS (port 2049) which are static, it unfortunately also uses rpc.mountd (aka mountd) which (by default) doesn’t run [ READ MORE ]
Ok, so on Friday I was working from home while recuperating after some surgery (don’t ask). I’m currently working on a large migration project which is really high priority time-scale wise, which is why I was working from home, since I, nor the company I work for can really afford for me to be away [ READ MORE ]