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How to Add Members to the DnsUpdateProxy Group

Use the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in to configure the DnsUpdateProxy security group. For more information, refer to Windows 2000 help, and search for “To add a member to a group”. Note If you are using multiple DHCP servers for fault tolerance and you use secure dynamic updates, add each of the computers that [...]

How to Block IP address of any country with iptables

Sometime it is necessary to block incoming connection or traffic from specific remote host. iptables is administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT under Linux kernel. Following tip will help you to block attacker or spammers IP address.  The blocklist is create with an API I wrote and you can use wget to update [...]

How to Assign Disk Quotas in Redhat

A simplistic approach would be to simply divide the disk space by the number of users and/or groups using it. For example, if the system has a 100GB disk drive and 20 users, each user will be given a hard limit of no more than 5GB

How to Run quotacheck command

When each quota-enabled file system is remounted, the system is now capable of working with disk quotas. However, the file system itself is not yet ready to support quotas. To do this, you must first run quotacheck. The quotacheck command examines quota-enabled file systems, building a table of the current disk usage for each one. This table is [...]

How to Implement Disk Quotas on Linux

This tutorial walks you through implementing disk quotas for both users and groups on Linux, using a virtual filesystem, which is a filesystem created from a disk file. Since quotas work on a per-filesystem basis, this is a way to implement quotas on a sub-section, or even multiple subsections of your drive, without reformatting. This [...]

Using teaming adapters with network load balancing may cause network problems

Some hardware manufacturers offer fault tolerance with their network adapters and accompanying drivers. Fault tolerance technology lets you group network adapter ports for a connection to a single physical segment. If connectivity through one port does not work, another port is opened automatically. This operation is transparent to the operating system and other devices on [...]

How to Configure terminal server access permission

This article describes new options that you can use to assign user rights in Windows that affect the Terminal Services feature. Windows Server 2003 includes the following new User Rights options: Allow logon through Terminal Services Deny logon through Terminal Services You can use these options to change the set of permissions a user must [...]

How to Install Imagemagick on CentOS

ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply [...]

How To Install NicTool on FreeBSD 7

It includes an attractive web interface for users, admins, and clients to access and update their DNS zone data as well as a rich API for provisioning systems to interact with. All zone data is stored in MySQL and is extracted by export scripts to the DNS server of choice (tinydns, BIND, PowerDNS). Updates are [...]

An Introduction to Basic IPv4 Routing

All of the operations considered in this article are operations upon a router, whether that router is a Linux box or Cisco dedicated hardware or some other type of machine. In this chapter I consider the traditional methods of IPv4 routing as using static configurations that are manually input by the network administrator. 1.1 Traditional [...]

How to use Grep command – Linux Popular Command

Grep is by far the most popular command that exists in Unix. Though some may argue about that, but once you begin using grep, it would always be present in all your complex commands that you think of executing at the shell prompt. grep stands for ‘global regular expression printer‘ . Which makes no sense [...]