Planet Cy

GO ARIZONA!!!

Cyrus — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:52:42 +0000

OnBase Disconnected Scanning LDAP Switch

Cyrus — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:48:54 +0000

When using LDAP and NT Authentication must add the following switches to disconnected scanning….

-AL -INTERACTIVE

Don’t forget it!

Adobe Bridge, what’s the point?

Cyrus — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:21:43 +0000

Someone please explain to me the point of Adobe Bridge? As a web developer, php programmer, and a really bad graphic designer, I see it as nothing more then an annoyance! I really don’t get it? WHAT IS THE POINT?? And WHY does Adobe CS4 associate PDF files with Adobe Bridge during the install? I mean seriously, if I double click on a PDF file I want to view the damn thing, IN FULL SIZE! I opened it reason, you know because I wanted to READ IT! Not play a stupid game of move the silly little magnifying glass around in the tiny preview window and guess what’s in the document!! I want to view it full screen at a 100%!

I will say if I was on a MAC it might be useful after all the Mac finder is positively dreadful!

Video!

Cyrus — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:19:33 +0000

OnBase Verbose Switch

Cyrus — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:31:09 +0000

add a -V for verbose.

And now scratch your head and wonder where the hell the log file is? I mean seriously? Where is it? The documentation for the nethasp tells me the name of the file but says nothing about where the configuration client stores the file. That’s helpful. How about a hint? Maybe make a game out of it? Maybe some pictures?

Well after some searching, found it! Well atleast on win7/Server 2008.

root:\Users\’username’\AppData\Local\

but I’ve also seen it appear in root:\Users\’username’\AppData\Local\some random directory?

Really a random directory? I’m no windows programmer but really you can’t place the log fill in the same place each time?

UGH!

Neighbour table overflow

Cyrus — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:20:42 +0000

We had an OES 1 box that was unable to communicate on the network, it was acting like it was recieving a DOS attack but traffic analysis did not indicate this. What we found was a situation where the server was on a network with considerable more hosts then the default ARP cache was able to maintain. The default threshold levels were set too low. We doubled the threshold limits using the information below.

How to resolve “Neighbour table overflow” problem?

Gnu/Linux servers (when used extensively as a server) throw the following messages in log file

kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
kernel: printk: 100 messages suppressed.
kernel: Neighbour table overflow.
kernel: printk: 151 messages suppressed.
kernel: Neighbour table overflow.

The solution to the problem is to increase the threshold level for the network devices

To check the present threshold level 1

cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh1

It will give some value as 128 or 256 or 512.

This can be increased to the next level.Like if the value is 128 then

make the thresh1 value as 256 and thresh2 as 512 and thresh3 as 1024.

echo 256 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh1

echo 512 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh2

echo 1024 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh3

This will stop the Error messages that were recieved in the log file

This was reposted from gnulinuxclub.org
http://www.gnulinuxclub.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=333&Itemid=49

Mount Novell Share

Cyrus — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:52:37 +0000

First make sure ncpfs is installed:      rpm -q ncpfs
If not install it:     yum install ncpfs
mount volume:     ncpmount -S server-name -A server-dns-name -U username -V volume-name /mnt/where-you-want-to-mount-it

VMWARE ESX 3.0 FireWall

Cyrus — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:08:14 +0000

As stolen from Travvis Epperson’s blog…..

The ESX firewall is great for security but a pain when it comes to troubleshooting! It may not be best practice (None of the stuff I write probably is), but you can change the default incoming and outgoing rule from deny to allow. I use it when I just can’t get something in ESX to work remember to turn it back to deny once you have figured out what in the firewall to open…

To open:
esxcfg-firewall –allowOutgoing
esxcfg-firewall –allowIncoming

To close:
esxcfg-firewall –blockIncoming
esxcfg-firewall –blockOutgoing

Using dbcopy yippie skippy!

Cyrus — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:42:16 +0000

Groupwise 7 Documentation:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw7/gw7_admin/index.html?page=/documentation/gw7/gw7_admin/data/bqpw8ct.html

A link to a cool solutions article for adding dbcopy script to te crontab:
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/2611/incremental-groupwise-database-backups

A Novell forum post on dbcopy I found helpful:
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/groupwise/groupwise-7x/gw7-install-setup-admin/108420-dbcopy-cron-oes-linux.html#post443320

VMWare backup Info

Cyrus — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:35:26 +0000

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vm_backup.pdf