Yesterday I learnt just how easy it is to fuckup big time if you do not pay enough attention when adding a new volume to a RAID controller, I got distracted by my phone and 1 second later the system volume of the server I was working on had been initialized. Thankfully I only ran …

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A not so funny thing in later version of OS X, the OS grabs both F11 and F12 keys making them useless in applications that use them. I found this quite annoying and since I frequently use application that uses both those buttons I had to fix this bug(not according to apple), thankfully enough there …

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To allow NIS (still only focusing on passwd and group) through a firewall add the following to /etc/sysconfig/network YPSERV_ARGS=”-p 834″ YPXFRD_ARGS=”-p 835″  

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Using NIS is a great way to make sure that passwd, group and other stuff keeps up to date on all machines in a network, since I only need just passwd and group I’ll focus on that. If your goal is to set up a new NIS server see this page instead. First make sure …

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The time for NIS has finally come, to be honest I did actually set this up last spring but I never came around to implement it but now as everything is almost where it should be there are no longer any good excuses for not utilizing NIS for user->UID mapping. I’ll just get straight to …

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