Archive for the ‘System Management’ Category

How to configure NFS

On large networks, it might be more convenient to configure a central NFS server in which to store all the user home directories. These home directories can then be exported to the network so that users would always have the same home directory, regardless of which workstation they log in to.
Several machines could have a [...]

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How to mount an external USB storage device

In this example, we will attach an external Trust USB card reader to a FreeBSD 7.2 machine.
Our memory card is inserted into the card reader, and the card reader USB cord is then plugged in. The USB port will be probed by the generic mass storage driver and we can then fetch the device name, [...]

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Installing a laser printer in Ubuntu 9.04

Installing a laser printer is actually straight forward, if you keep in mind, that most laser printers has standard queues, from which they accept input. One of these is the raw queue, also referred to as RAW or RAW1. Using this, you do not have to mingle with drivers in the operating system or drivers [...]

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Solving a missing shared object problem

The following error was returned when trying to start smbd on a FreeBSD 7.0 operating system after a power failure in a failed uninterruptible power supply (UPS).
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object “libcrypt.so.15″ not found, required by “libgnutls.so.26″
Assuming, that ports, that depend on libgcrypt, has to be reinstalled, the following procedure is executed. libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library [...]

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A more neat desktop in Ubuntu

The default desktop in Ubuntu is actually pretty neat. However, there are a few quick options, that optimizes the look, feel and practical usage.
The default desktop shows two grey bars. There is one on the top and one on the bottom. Let’s make this a little more neat. Disable the bar on the bottom. Move [...]

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