Monthly Archives: October 2013

Mounting NFS share with autofs

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Statically mounting remote filesystems via /etc/fstab can be quite impractical on mobile devices such as notebooks that are frequently used in different network environments where the share is not always available. To take care of this, there’s a great tool called autofs that let’s you mount remote filesystems on demand. Let’s assume, there’s an NFS server running in our network… Read more »

Resolve local hostname with nss-myhostname

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Many applications rely on a fully qualified domain name and won’t work properly or even fail to start without one. For example, even if your hostname is correctly set up, apache won’t start with the default configuration on Fedora 19 if your DNS server cannot resolve the hostname: But fortunately there’s a plugin to the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS)… Read more »