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Steps to enable via commandline following boot rmmod qla2300 insmod qla2300 ql2xfailover=1 Steps to compile in qlogic driver failover and use more than 4G of ram on redhat 3.0. tar -xvf qla2x00-v7.01.01-dist.tar cd qlogic edit qla_settings.h, make MPIO_SUPPORT 1 rather than 0 ./drvrinstall make all SMP=1 make all install update /etc/modules.conf with these entries ———————————– …

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relocate to /etc/mail cp sendmail.mc to sendmail.mc.bak edit sendmail.mc and make desired configuration changes define(`SMART_HOST’,`mailhost.erc.ge.com’)dnl define(`LOCAL_RELAY’,`mailhost’(dnl) LOCAL_DOMAIN(`erc.ge.com’)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`ercgroup.com’)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl copy sendmail.cf to sendmail.cf.bak # m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf # service sendmail stop # service sendmail start Original post blogged on b2evolution.

be sure nfs server is running, if not, start it define the share, either through file edit of /etc/exports or the gui tool exportfs –a (to share all) mount filesystem on remote server unmount filesystem from remote server exportfs –ua unmount local filesystem if desired service nfs status service nfs start Original post blogged on …

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Package Location ftp internet anonymous@updates.redhat.com bin cd 8.0 cd en cd os cd i386 # rpm –q –a # rpm –q –f filename # rpm –Fvh package-name [package-name package-name…] one additional note here, I discovered 2 options for packages, SRPMS, and i386.  I believe SRPMS are the source code packages and i386 is precompiled for …

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Prepare physical volume (where diskname = sda, sdb, sdc,…) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskname bs=1k count=1 (NOTE: this is destructive to all data on this disk) blockdev –rereadpt /dev/diskname pvcreate /dev/diskname Prepare Volume Group vgcreate –s 1g my_vol_group /dev/diskname you can modify the extent size during vg creation Create Logical Volume Defined Size lvcreate –Lsize-in-MB –n lv-name …

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The uname command has been enhanced to show the partition number using the -L option. If you run uname -L on an AIX partition, you will see the following output: 1 lpar01 Where: 1 Partition number (unique for each partition) lpar01 Partition name If you run this command on AIX that is not running in …

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When doing a system recovery often the things that can break your recovery procedures is having a new system that is new and completely dissimilar from the old system. This recovery procedure will walk you thru the process of  creating the backup image and image restoration. Describe the recovery problem and its fixes. Assumptions: I …

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