In Linux the kscand process is a kernel process which is a key component of the virtual memory (vm) system. According to Unix Tech Tips & Tricks’ excellent Understanding Virtual Memory article “The kscand task periodically sweeps through all the pages in memory, taking note of the amount of time the page has been in …
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Issues Sharing Automount Home Directories from Solaris to Linux
I discovered this problem while attempting to share our automounted home directories from my Solaris 10 NFS file server to my SUSE and Red Hat Linux NFS clients. automount[10581]: >> mount: block device 192.168.0.2:/data/home/samiller is write-protected, mounting read-only kernel: call_verify: server 192.168.0.2 requires stronger authentication. It turns out that the solution is quite simple. The …
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February 3, 2008: Oreo is Famous, Again
While doing some other research today I came across a really nice Introduction to Cron for you UNIX users out there. And this page, which I have found before, on easy ways to do remote file copies via SSH. I wanted to get up decently early this morning, probably around nine, but when I started …