http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:45:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-server-predicting-hardware-failure.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-server-predicting-hardware-failure.html#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:54:58 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=4951 The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) is used for the error screen displayed by Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system. Linux / UNIX like operating system may get a kernel panic. It is just like BSoD. The BSoD and a kernel panic generated using a Machine Check Exception (MCE). MCE is nothing but feature of AMD / Intel 64 bit systems which is used to detect an unrecoverable hardware problem.

Program such mcelog decodes machine check events (hardware errors) on x86-64 machines running a 64-bit Linux kernel. It should be run regularly as a cron job on any x86-64 Linux system. This is useful for predicting server hardware failure before actual server crash.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-server-predicting-hardware-failure.html/feed 6 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-2624-packages-fix-several-vulnerabilities.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-2624-packages-fix-several-vulnerabilities.html#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:54:14 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=3774 Debian project today released a pair of security updates to plug at least ten security holes in its core called Linux kernel. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. This update has been rated as having important security impact.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-2624-packages-fix-several-vulnerabilities.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel4-kernel-bug-fix-update.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel4-kernel-bug-fix-update.html#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:13:07 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/?p=2639 Updated kernel packages that fix several bugs, while adding an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel4-kernel-bug-fix-update.html/feed 0 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reboot-linux-box-after-a-kernel-panic.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reboot-linux-box-after-a-kernel-panic.html#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:18:41 +0000 Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reboot-linux-box-after-a-kernel-panic.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reboot-linux-box-after-a-kernel-panic.html/feed 3