Find the WWN’s of Qlogic HBAs in SUSE 10

To find the WWPN and Other information of Qlogic HBAs without restarting the host, you can use any of the following methods.
for i in `seq 0 4` ;
do echo #####Host $i ######;
cat /sys/class/fc_host/host$i/port_name;
cat /sys/class/fc_host/host$i/port_state;
cat /sys/class/fc_host/host$i/port_type;
cat /sys/class/fc_host/host$i/speed;
cat /sys/class/fc_host/host$i/supported_speeds;
done
Your output may be the following,
0×2100001b32xxxxx
Online
NPort (fabric via point-to-point)
4 Gbit
1 Gbit, 2 Gbit, 4 Gbit
0×2101001b32xxxxx
Online
NPort (fabric via point-to-point)
4 Gbit
1 [...]

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OpenSSL Unable to load config info on SLES 9

I’m using openssl-devel-0.9.7d-15.21 and openssl-0.9.7d-15.21 version to generate the key and the CSR for vsftpd FTP SSL connection on SLES9 SP3 and SP4. To do this I did the following
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout /etc/vsftpd.key -out /etc/vsftpd.pem

and gave me following error saying
Unable to load config infoGenerating a 1024 bit RSA private [...]

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OpenIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) for Linux

OpenIPMI is an effort to create a full-function IPMI system to allow full access to all IPMI information on a server and to abstract it to a level that will make it easy to use.
The Open IPMI Linux device driver is designed as a full-function IPMI device driver with the following features:

Allows multiple users.
Allows multiple [...]

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Current version of the ServeRAID

To find the current version of the ServeRAID device driver under Linux use the following.
Eg from IBM xSeries server
$ cat /proc/scsi/aacraid/0Adaptec Raid Controller: 1.1-5[2434]custom-IBMVendor: IBM  Model: ServeRAID 8iflags=SAI_READ_CAPACITY_16kernel: 5.2-0[15421]monitor: 5.2-0[15421]bios: 5.2-0[15421]serial: 83xxx

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df and du commands showing different values in *inx

Normally, df and du will report with closest usage on a specific file system. But there might be some open file was opened and deleted by  other process but it does not exist in the directory structure. This tech note are for specific Linux O/S and if your OS is Solaris , please look at [...]

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