Linux is known for one of most secure Unix Operating System (OS) in world. But that is not mean it is 100% secure there is say in Information Technology (IT) no technology is a completely secure that is why from a System Administrator to CIO they take measure for securing IT infrastructure on regular basis…
Tag: OpenSource
What is Windows subsystem for Linux?
Microsoft has added Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from Microsoft Windows 10 version 1607 onward and Windows Server 2019 it has replaced the older Windows Services for Unix it is like WINE in Linux which provide compatible layer for running Windows based application on Linux likewise WSL provide a subsystem or layer on which different Linux distro…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta major features and improvement
Red Hat has launched the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) for users and developers for testing purpose and getting feedback from them. Red Hat Inc. which is developing RHEL 8 has announced this operating system beta version for public use on November 14, 2018. Four year ago when Red Hat…
Segmentation Fault error in Linux / Unix system
You were running a program installed in your Linux/Unix system and suddenly that program get stop and it log error in its logs memory segmentation fault error or you might executing a command in Linux / Unix server say you are working on LVM extension or VG scanning but you are unable to do so…
I have applied updates in my Ubuntu Linux machine how do I check what updates are applied?
Whenever you apply an install/update/remove any package or packages Ubuntu log the changes happened to packages in its default file /var/log/dpkg.log. If you do listing to /var/log/ path (below is the command) you may find numbers of uncompressed and compressed dpkg.log files it depends on what type of log rotate policy is configure in file…
Simple way to configure Ngnix High Availability Web Server with Pacemaker and Corosync on CentOS7
Pacemaker is an open source cluster manager software which provide high availability of resources or services in CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 Linux. It has feature of scalable and advanced HA Cluster Manager. This HA cluster manager distributed by ClusterLabs. Corosync is the core of Pacemaker Cluster Manager as it is responsible for generating heartbeat…
How to recover “rpmdb open failed” error in RHEL or Centos Linux
You are updating the system through yum command and suddenly power goes down or what happen if yum process is accidentally killed. Post this situation when you tried to update the system again with yum command now you are getting below error message related to rpmdb: error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 2196/139984719730496 failed: BDB1507 Thread died…
What is OpenFlow? How it works in SDN?
OpenFlow is a standard protocol of SDN which assist SDN Controller to communicate directly with the forwarding plane of network devices such as switches and routers, both physical and virtual (hypervisor-based), so it can better adapt to changing business requirements. Generally the conventional switches forwards the packets which are called the Forwarding Plane and do…
Setting different kernel version in Ubuntu 16.04.4 as default.
In Ubuntu we can set different installed kernel version as default so that during next boot time Ubuntu can boot from that default kernel version as per requirement. There can be many reason for setting different installed kernel version as default example: Ubuntu is unable to boot with current installed or upgraded kernel version. After…
Ubuntu throwing /boot full error on screen.
I Love Ubuntu after Fedora it is my preferred OS who live in my personal Laptop. Today I was trying to install Oracle Virtualbox in my Laptop during building initrd image I start getting boot partition full error on screen. Also in apt-get installation screen I got below error message due to no space…