Aaghaz

Nfs on Solaris 10

2008-10-31T02:27:00.000-07:00

Right now, I am confuse, as usual. I do not want to talk much about it....

Lastly i was trying to run NFS on Solaris 10. Things have changed a lot from 8.

But I thought since they have given the script in init.d so it should work.

It did not. The reason is user error. I am getting dumb day by day.

Solaris 10 has now introduced svcadm and svcs commands, which can be used to start/stop and list different services.

So I found out that if the file in /etc/dfs/dfstab is not well written, and some error or typos, even than nfs will not start, and to check the log ( thats the interesting part) see in /var/svc/log.

:M

Madness vs Sanity

2008-10-07T05:11:00.000-07:00

I am not famous, nor I am infamous. That is something which does not makes me more happy. Any ways, today I have read a news regarding a Malaysian blogger getting arrested by ISA ( some security agency). The charge they have put on him is sedition.

http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/10/06/1952201.shtml

So I put a filter on my thoughts, its not a free world to live in after all. You say truth and you will be knocked out. I wish if it could more purer than this hypocrisy.

Rushaan ( my son), is really giving a tough time now a days, some times I get worried about him. He really get bored and a lot frustrated. I am not sure what I should be doing with him. I will be planing some thing for him though.

I have been again pinged by my past, I am not sure if I should take the bate, I am sure I should not, but its always so tempting that a person like me can hardly resist. I will try to have a strong determination.

Prays....and blessings......

No Politics

2008-09-08T04:30:00.000-07:00

Lots of funny things happening today, the biggest of all;Asif Ali Zardari becoming President of Pakistan, Islamic Democratic Pakistan, A person who has spent more than eight years in jail, for the charges of corruption, murder, and committing suicide.

At such moments being a loyal & loving Pakistani I want to weep a lot. I am unable to understand why Allah is doing this all. But when I saw people celebrating this event, mocked, ashamed and pinching picture of our nation tells me every thing, but even than this is not fair with those who still believe in United and forever Pakistan.

How can a man who has been accused of such big charges become the supreme leader of an Islamic state? When I look back in history, I can see people calling my Prophet as Amin, Sadiq; the one who is Honest and who never said a lie. When I see it today, I see a tragedy, I see catastrophe and I see the misery of my great country. A person claiming that oaths, commitments are not words of God, and they are not supposed to be believed upon and they should not be fulfilled. Can there be a biggest wound, to my country? Can there be any bigger tragedy? Can there be any bigger mockery of a country whose theme is Islam.

We are all dead, yes we are. The souls inside us are no more. Soon we will be no more as well. This is what I can predict. I use to love this country and I still do, but I am really sad, that there will not be a Pakistan that came into being in 1947. I can see a burning Pakistan without any values that use to be its essence.

I wish I could any thing to stop this thing, but I am so unfortunate, I can not do any thing. I do not have courage or any power to stop this evil with my hands. But what a shame that lots of people who have enough power to stop this thing are not showing any courage at all. This really tells the whole story that why our President will be a person who has a history of corruption, murder and lying.

May Allah do a miracle and save my country.

2008-08-30T05:48:00.000-07:00

Its about how you think.

For me it does not matter, if you think positive or negative. But you should think about what you think. You should have the ability to analyze what you perceive. You should enjoy thinking. The world has come across a long way, no Aristotle no Plateau, even than thinking is most important.

The idea of doing things are great. But its useless if you are not analyzing by thinking. Every one can do things, that is not important, like all the animals that can do lots of tricks. But only Human being Homo Sapien can think, evaluate and analyse. May Allah let us use this power rightly.

2008-08-30T05:28:00.000-07:00

Lots of people are writing on whats going in the country now a days, I saw the article from Talat Hussain, and the other day I read Javed Chaudry.

I am unable to understand that what exactly every one wanted, is it always wrong. When it started every one was praising the coalition, since they want musharaf to leave. Once he is left they all start growling against PPP and ML (N). Why is that. Do not they have any foresightedness, not at all. Everybody was knowing or atleast I knew that things are not going in right direction, its not Musharaf that should be departed, it is not the right time for him.

No one can be a wrong person all of a sudden for theses journalists, they make hero in days and make the same hero zero in minutes.

Last night I was watching some stupid folks on TV, talking about that 'Its a politician duty'. Who is the politcian, is it some kind of a profession, I say no its not. Its a responsibility that comes on every ones shoulder. Moreover they used the word ambitious generals, hahhahahha. Well it is so simple to me, you vow to server the country, and the nation and the ppl of the country and than you steel from the same country and telling Army Chief that yes I have done it and you should do it as well, but he is not ambitious he is more greedy, so he tells them that since I was your subordinate but now when you have accepted every thing your self, than here is a kick in your ass and let me have all the share.

Simple, you do a mistake, you get kicked, every one do mistakes. And every one comes from the same society even Ambitious generals.

Living dead

2008-08-28T23:43:00.000-07:00

Its not good morally, I am in office and I should not be writing my blog, instead I should be doing some work to justify my salary. Well thats true, but since my product is being RTMd and I have been working very hard lately so I think I can spend some time doing this while I am not doing anything official being in office.

Some times it is very hard to express one self. For me if I do not express, I feel like if I am dead. Writing diary is a very good habit. But since I am so busy now days that I rarely get time to sit n think and do analysis. Which is very important before putting any thing on paper. When I am in office I can not think of any thing of any thing else other than how to work more in order to get more pay(thats true). When I am home and I watch TV and I really start feeling that so many things are happening wrong and my sensitive mind filled up with so many aggressive and revolutionary thoughts than all of a sudden my 3 years old kid switched of the TV. He wants to play with me, irritate me as for him His Mom and Dad are every thing, his toys, his mentors, his friends.

Normally I use to get a piece of paper and a pen, I use to have a desk and I start writing peacefully. Since this is not possible so I will write electronically and in English.( with capital E)

What is happening

2008-08-26T05:40:00.000-07:00

Lots of things are happening. With me, with my country and all around the globe. Its make me feel sad, that all i talk to my colleagues about the current political horizon is becoming true. Though I never said that the corrupt Zardari will become our president but I have always telling them that do not believe him and how could you give respect to person who has spent 8 years in Jail and all his cases are gone in one day.

This is ridiculous I mean nobody should believe that he is innocent, for ages he has been refusing about Surrey Palace and now he owns it. I do not know why do not he spend money for needy people, if he have a lot of it. He always talk.

We are not a nation, no we are not. We are slaves all of us, dumb, deaf. We want Musharaf to go, and we want Zardari to be president. What does it sound like?

Dream

2008-08-22T11:34:00.000-07:00

I am not sure. But I trust Allah. For the last one week I was alone. I did not do any thing. I am not sure why I did not. I did not even thgought about life. It all felt like if I am in a pause state. Not moving.

I know things, I can analyse them. I can distinugish between right and wrong. Even than I dont do. I am not sure why.

I have felt love only once in my life. I do not want to lose it. That feeling has grown so mature. I now understand and I can distinguish.

I pray to him all the time that he give me direction and will to do. I wana do something, something for him atleast. He send me in this world, I do not want to leave it empty handed.

Temptations .... worries ...and confusions...what else.

2008-08-19T03:40:00.000-07:00

Lots going on now a days. I am running out of money, I have been rejected by google and I am not happy with what I am doing now.

Being rejected by google was good enough experience. I did not like the rejection at all, but atleast it make me realize that my standerds are not the world standerds. So got to work, and keeping finding best out of my self. I should and I will. Nevertheless it was big shock to me, firstly I was being called by them, second shock was when I cleared the first interview and the last one when they rejected me very politely after the second interview :)

I am feeling very lost, just like my country. we are going nowhere and so am I. Sometimes it becomes very hard to decide. I am not getting mature with relations. With time passing, they are getting confused for me.

I know the end, I will die. Every one will, so when I am living I should be doing something useful, and every thing I do , seems to be so useless to me. Why?

How to kill a Zombie process

2008-08-11T00:09:00.002-07:00

Send a child kill (20) sigchld signal to the parent process, never seems to work for me. So either do not bother to kill it or reboot your system if your running out of PIDs, which will not be the case ever.

Zombie process do not occupy any memory space, they just show there presence in process table.

Simplest way to enable password less ssh

2008-08-11T00:09:00.001-07:00

Nops its not ssh-agent, it’s a very stupid tool, apparently I did not find it of any use.
Generate keys either rsa or dsa using ssh-keygen, copy the public key to remote host as ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. check the permissions, they should be read only. All set to go. SSH needs to be configured. It can use various methods of authentication, one out of them is passphrase, which I guess uses ssh-agent, other are hosts files, just like in case of rsh, and the simplest one is key exchange method

Load average in UNIX

2008-08-11T00:08:00.002-07:00

Some search on load average tells me that solaris kernel has some bug regarding it. Overall nobody defines load average in a simple way. Lots of complexity. What I get out it is;
Load average is CPU load + the capacity of CPU to handle jobs in a queue, if a cpu is overloaded by a job, and it is unable to entertain other requests, or the job execution is taking so much time, the load will increase, cuz other jobs will be piled up in the queue. It directly depends on number of CPU in linux, if a machine has 4 cpus; the load average will be too much when it will be over 4, means all 4 cpus are engaged

How To remove a file or directory in UNIX with name “–f”

2008-08-11T00:08:00.001-07:00

There are other unix ways, but the most simplest of all is to ftp that system, rename that file to some other name like delme and remove it from the shell prompt using “rm”.

How traceroute works

2008-08-11T00:07:00.000-07:00

Traceroute works on ICMP. There is a field in IP packet header called TTL (time to live), internet uses this field as its working base. It is set to maximum, which is by default 30, every packet when passes through a gateway is incremented its TTL by 1, so when it reaches 30, the packet destroy it self. This is to avoid routing loops.

TTL DETAILS
The TTL value of an IP packet represents the maximum number of IP routers that the packet can go through before being thrown away. In current
practice you can expect each router in the Internet to decrement the TTL field by exactly one.

The TCP/IP specification states that the TTL field for TCP packets should be set to 60, but many systems use smaller values (4.3 BSD uses 30, 4.2
used 15).

The maximum possible value of this field is 255, and most Unix systems set the TTL field of ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to 255. This is why you will
find you can â€˜â€˜pingâ€™â€™ some hosts, but not reach them with telnet(1) or ftp(1).

In normal operation ping prints the ttl value from the packet it receives. When a remote system receives a ping packet, it can do one of three
things with the TTL field in its response:

Â· Not change it; this is what Berkeley Unix systems did before the 4.3BSD Tahoe release. In this case the TTL value in the received packet will be
255 minus the number of routers in the round-trip path.

Â· Set it to 255; this is what current Berkeley Unix systems do. In this case the TTL value in the received packet will be 255 minus the number of
routers in the path from the remote system to the pinging host.

Â· Set it to some other value. Some machines use the same value for ICMP packets that they use for TCP packets, for example either 30 or 60. Others may use completely wild values

UNIX system call that gives inode information for a file.

2008-08-11T00:06:00.000-07:00

STAT is the unix system call or command which gives information out of an inode;

stat tws
File: `tws'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 1792604 Links: 3
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2008-08-01 22:16:56.000000000 +0500
Modify: 2008-08-01 22:16:49.000000000 +0500
Change: 2008-08-01 22:16:49.000000000 +0500

Man and him

2008-07-19T22:38:00.000-07:00

He just looked at me, I am not sure why. I have tried my best to make him at ease, but he does not seems to be happy with my efforts. Though he has drink some milk, but yet he is sucking his hand, literally the whole hand. I tried, but I cant do it.

I am supposedly alone. Does his presence impact the phenomena of loneliness? He is not talking to me, though he is crying. Can I ignore him? Being my youngest baby boy, I can not. I will not. But does it mean that if you can ignore, you can achive the state of loneliness? Yes you can.

Being alone gives you the freedom to do what you want to do and can not do with others and in front of others.

And since I am not alone, so I have to really see why he is crying.......chao!

Feelings

2008-07-17T05:43:00.001-07:00

Feelings, they are just like a unix variable, changing values. Sometimes you feel insecure, sometimes you feel happy, you feel incomplete, and sometimes you feel powerful.

Sometimes you feel that you are not doing much, and sometimes you feel that you are overbrudend.

Your mood swings with your feelings. Its very hard to keep things constant.

I just wish that we could handle things or I could handle thinsg positively, what ever happens, we emerge out with a smile and a positive note.

just like a script that always ends with a staus 'success'

Thinking way too hard

2008-07-09T12:04:00.000-07:00

Lots going on now a days, something very important and something very lame. Something very unique and something really usual.

I am worried about my future and lots more. How I will manage my kids, what if they will more in number in coming days, the thought of this give me strong headach, and if they will remain two, how I will manage to get them do good and being positive for this world. Will they able to manage to follow the right track, will I be able to get food and clothes for them ..bla, bla.

There have been few bomb blasts lately. Things were bizare. Its not getting very normal for a bomb to explode and take few lives. I am not sure how excatly people manage it to get it done so easily but its alarming. The blast in Islamabad was totally illogical, I could not understand the motive and yet another blast in Kabul after some time, in front Indian embassy, gives me some meaningful bells in my head.

The nations top leader ship is not in country, its really funny that we do not have a place in our country where politicains can meet, for that they have to go out in another country, it is hilarious.

I was watching news, and some of the indian parties get seperated from congress government for some issue regarding nuclear deal. I amazingly noticed that one of the leaders was traveling in a "merc"

Back to start

2008-07-08T07:45:00.000-07:00

Since my website is down for some reason, so I can not post any thing on it.....

So many things happening and I really want to say loud about them.

thanks to google they kept my blog for 4 years.....:)

cheers