TechFiz on August 2nd, 2009

I had sent this funny birthday wish to one of my new friend some time back. I thought it’s worth putting up on my blog…
Flying commands,
multi color consoles,
delicate confusing questions,
fantastic scripts,
daemons, errors and
more warnings…
Full of GNU hurds and LINUX penguins
bringing you Birthday Wishes…

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TechFiz on July 11th, 2009

Unable to login to hypervm for some reason? Forgot password link now working? Try this.

#cd /usr/local/lxlabs/hypervm/httpdocs
#lphp.exe ../bin/common/resetpassword.php master <new password>
#/etc/init.d/hypervm restart
Now you will be able to login to hypervm with the new password.
Same thing works for lxadmin admin account.

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TechFiz on January 22nd, 2009

After setting up Nagios server and Client you might find to see some funny status messages. One of which is, “Host not reachable” and you will see all the Nagios clients showing up in RED status though other services are fine in status page.
This can happen due to multiple reasons. First one is obviously related [...]

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TechFiz on January 22nd, 2009

It is very hard to explain novice users about making changes to some of the configuration files. Hence, I always keep digging into tools which helps us to make life easier. Especially on Ubuntu.
To make changes to GRUB default option, we need not tell users to edit the configuration when we have a tool called [...]

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TechFiz on December 18th, 2008

Last weekend I attended couple of  Free Software events where in met the founder of Free Software Foundation Richard Stallman and Historian Prof. Eben moglen. But somehow I lost few images which I had taken. I did remember clearing up my camera memory card during the evening session after copying the files to my USB [...]

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TechFiz on December 10th, 2008

Unable to remove huge list of session files found in /tmp? Never mind. Use xargs. Yes, its simple and you can quickly learn lots of one liners while working on console. Check the quick solution given below:

find . -type f -name “_sess*” -exec rm {} \; -print

Did you like it? Then learn few more one [...]

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