OpenBySource a.k.a jeevan_ullas

Moved from Blogger

2010-02-28T12:21:00.002+05:30

Yes,Finally I am moving out from blogger to my own website powered by wordpress. It was a good journey at blogger but at some point in time we have to make a decision and upgrade ourself, for me this is the time. For those who would like to keep themselves updated please stay in touch with me and my blogThanksDeependra Singh

End of a long silence

2009-06-18T10:22:00.002+05:30

Hey all , I am back :)Well at least I will try to be regular now on this blog and write few things which I have been engaged with these days.So stay tune!

I voted

2008-12-08T08:07:00.003+05:30

Cast your vote go to : https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting

Fedora 10 brings happiness to linuxguru's Life

2008-11-26T08:57:00.002+05:30

Yay!!Cambridge was out yesterday night (IST).And just when the download was about to finish for me I got my Directory Services exams result and I was told that I have passed the exam. w000t. That was the last hurdle in the way to become RHCSS.Finally I can call myself Redhat Certified Security Specialist. How awesome all this looks. Brand new fedora on my laptop and desktop machines and RHCSS!!!

Introducing myself to Fedora Planet

2008-10-22T07:30:00.003+05:30

Hi Fedora Planet,Thanks for accepting me ;-). Those who would like to know more about me just have a look here.Hope to get some meaningful posts in the future. ;-)Till then Enjoy!

Securing Log Server in RHEL

2008-07-28T18:15:00.003+05:30

Few weeks back I took up the task to replace my syslog server in RHEL5.2 with the new rsyslog package. Redhat packaged rsyslog from RHEL 5 starting with update 2. So I thought of testing it out with stunnel supporting me encryption over the communication line.The setup goes something like this:-I have two RHEL5.2 machines one is station1 and the other is server1. The station1 machine sends the

NTP Server

2008-07-28T11:47:00.009+05:30

It's been long since I am using NTP server in my installations here. So I thought to document my setup a bit in order to explain myself what's going on and to help others world wide so that they can also have a secure setup for Time server in Linux.Time server is a important part of a network as everybody might be knowing. It is a must if we want to have a network setup which will later consists

Using svn with Eclipse

2008-03-30T15:42:00.003+05:30

Using eclipse as the IDE for my java programming has become very common these days. It's so common that I have it installed under windows xp, Fedora 8 and OSX leopard. Few days back I asked charlie for a svn account on unixpod and was able to get one by the name java-jeevan.I thought of configuring this svn repository in my eclipse europa so that it will be easier for me to manage my code. I

/me back to blogging

2008-01-13T07:12:00.000+05:30

Well, again it's been quite a while since I blogged. Truly speaking it was me who never felt interest in writing again but now I think that I should write (silly me :-P).Lot of things have happened since my last post. In the month of October I had a visit to my native place (my village), spent almost 10 days at places like Mukungarh (Dadosa's home), Sainswas (my village) and Pilani (visit to a

Random Stuff

2007-10-06T04:48:00.000+05:30

Today morning I was reading #fedora at freenode a little carefully and found this (nice to read it once hahaha):04:30 < R0CK> Hello guys04:31 < R0CK> any news about the add/remove software ?04:31 < opsec> R0CK: ask a real question or no one will respond to you04:32 < R0CK> I'm having problem on pirut, It's hanging when i run it,.04:32 * opsec puts on his mid reading hat04:32 < opsec> R0CK: and?

/me Status Update

2007-09-09T18:01:00.000+05:30

After along time I got some time to write at this place. Well for quite some months I have been working in Python and stuff related to it. The important things I worked on in python were XML stuff, IRC/Google Talk API's provided in Python, writing bots (irc, gtalk) and learning XML parsing.Then I got busy in my 2nd semester examination which were a total hell (took the hell out of me).Now that

Compiz-Fusion now arrives for Fedora7

2007-06-25T10:38:00.000+05:30

Many thanks to KageSenshi's efforts we now have Compiz-Fusion for Fedora7. For more information on how to install it look into KageSenshi's Blog.After installing all the stuff I did the following things (Note: This is for Intel video card users and GNOME no KDE support Yet :( ):Step 1: vi /home/deepsa/compiz-fusion-runLIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 INTEL_BATCH=1 compiz --replace --sm-disable ccp &Save

Configuring Pidgin 2.0.0 final for Google Talk in Linux

2007-05-05T16:58:00.000+05:30

Well guys, finally Pidgin (earlier Gaim) developers released the 2.0.0 stable release. It was after a long time we saw the final release coming out. Now with the new name , new website, new graphics and lot's of new features Pidgin is rocking.I thought to give it a try on my Linux loaded Laptop. My howto is inspired by the already available step by step instructions available here.First of all

2007-05-02T19:35:00.000+05:30

Fedora 7Well earlier today I finished downloading the Live cd release of Fedora 7 test 4 for i386. I booted out from the CD and when I saw it, it was just wow!! Yeah the same wow!! that microsoft says for Vista. I don't know much of vista's wow! but fedora 7 is really wow!! and I can confirm that.Notable features include fast user switching present at top right corner of the desktop (near clock).

Laptop RAM Upgraded

2007-04-29T00:24:00.000+05:30

Today I got my Laptop's RAM upgraded to 1GB. Now I can try researching more on virtualization specially full virtualization using KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine). And yeah now I can run more app's simultaneously in my Redhat5. I am almost finished writing my next article on how to configure Redhat Enterprise5 to use full virtualization provided by KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine).This article helped me

New Ubuntu

2007-04-20T13:43:00.000+05:30

Hello everybody. Last night Ubuntu feisty fawn was released. I was eagerly waiting for this distro. And the major reason for that is I found only Ubuntu as a Linux distro which can be installed and configured according to user needs in very less time. Most of the linux distros are known for there hard software installation and configuration just after installing the base operating system.

Provisioning Linux Simplified with Cobbler

2007-04-01T08:32:00.000+05:30

Well. RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 was release on 14th of last month. I hope alot of new changes will be there in it. But I still have RHEL5 Beta2 and this time I thought of trieing some new technology in my Beta2. I have heard alot of PXE(Pre-Execution Environment) but was never able to get time to try it. But recently I saw the RedHat Emerging Technologies webpage. This is a division in RedHat

Configuring Xen para virtualization in Redhat Enterprise 5

2007-03-05T15:17:00.000+05:30

Hello to everybody. In one of my last post I discussed about Xen and virtualization in Redhat Enterprise 5. Well at that time I was not able to configure virtual machine via the virtualization tool but after that I researched alot about this topic and finally was able to configure Xen on my Redhat Enterprise 5.Well, I had alot of problems with Xen earlier and I like to discuss them here. My first

Configuring Yum in RHEL5 for DVD source

2007-02-27T07:46:00.000+05:30

In my last article I explained the problem I faced with the installation of software in RHEL5 Beta2. I tried system-config-packages and the old "rpm" command but nothing worked as it used to in earlier days. So I thought to dig into this thing and tried to find the possible cause and solution to this problem.So I went on to GNU/Linx community and put up this question. Okay I got some inputs some

Linux Distros

2007-02-26T14:21:00.000+05:30

Well, it has been a long time since I wrote here. I have been busy with my exams and then got busy trying the new linux distro versions. In these days I tried my hands on the Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta2(RHEL). It was a great experience trying a enterprise product. I downloaded the huge 3.6 GB Client DVD.So let's see how was the drive with RHEL5.Installation procedure (anaconda) was exactly a

Exams fever the worst fever for a human being like me.

2007-01-23T21:04:00.000+05:30

Today I got my first semester exams date. They are starting from 27th feb 2007. After a long time I am giving exams. So this exam fever is killing me. I am not so use to this fever in the past 1 or so year.The fever has increased due to the boring subjects I have in my course. And most horrible of them is Discrete Mathematical Structures. The worst subject I have ever read. I haven't studied in

Installing OSX86

2006-10-22T11:05:00.000+05:30

So finally today I got time to give OSX86 a try. I have heard a lot about this. Someone said me it can be only installed on a blank hard drive (you have to make the hard drive blank otherwise loose data). Someone said it doesn't support most of the hardware in the market. But I thought to give it a try.My first and last concern was that I don't wanted to wipe out my hard drive because it was

Installing Windows XP virtual Machine

2006-05-24T06:52:00.000+05:30

In the previous post we discussed how we can install and configure VMware-workstation on a Fedora Core 5 machine. Now in this post I am going to discuss with you how to install a Windows XP virtual machine inside the VMware-workstation we installed in the previous post.From inside the VMware Application Select File->New->Virtual Machine.A "New Virtual Machine Wizard" gets opened up, inside the

VMware Installation , Configuration on Fedora Core 5

2006-05-24T06:06:00.000+05:30

In this post , I am going to share my experiences with you all , of how was I able to install VMware 5.5.1 on Linux (Fedora Core 5) and configure it and finally install windows XP through it.So following the step-by-step procedure we start up right away(follow all the below steps by login via root user only):Step 1) Vmware needs that the kernel and it's appropriate sources are installed properly

BSNL Broadband configuration Linux

2006-04-22T09:45:00.000+05:30

I was seeing constant threads at orkut regarding configuration of internet on linux. This guide I hope will help you establish the BSNL broadband connection on your linux box. I assume that you have configured your network interface (if not then I am going to post a similar post regarding howto configure it). This document is a copy of a document which I saw in late 2004 when I was searching for

Stepper motor driver GNU/Linux 2.6 kernel

2006-04-19T12:56:00.000+05:30

I started a work on some project related to Stepper Motor Driver in Linux. I found one tutorial at linux gazette online magazine. But to my surprise the driver written was for 2.4.x kernel's. I soon realised that I need to do pretty much stuff in order to make that driver work in 2.6.x kernel. Then again to my surprise I found a excellent tutorial at tldp explaining the 2.6.x and 2.4.x kernel

How tough is the RHCE exam ?

2005-11-14T17:17:00.001+05:30

Toughness of a certification exam can be judged out through many parameters. But important among them is the course content, type of examination (practical or theory) and also the industry value of the certificate.As I am currently studying RHCE I created this blog to get the views of students/sysadmin taking the RHCE exam or who had given the exam earlier. What are your views about the exam