To get a description of all the vms on an ESX 5.1 box use the following: ~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep vmx | awk '{ print $2 }'
List VMs in ESX 5.1
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Month: November 2012
Moving a machine from one VM or physical box to another
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This is the simple case where all we have is one disk that needs cloning. Assumptions for the following example Tools including backtrack distro available and permissible by company policy ( some c**ts get all agitated when sysadmins use a ‘knife’ to cut the ‘bread’ so be warned) Networking in place for the transfer preferable…
MySQL: Grant **all** privileges on database
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At mysql prompt as root user: GRANT ALL privileges ON *.* TO ‘user’@’machine.lan’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’ WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; That’s all
How to install MySQL on CentOS
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Here are the steps of what you need to do in order to install and setup MySQL on a new server. We’ll prepare a fresh CentOS 6 system (64 bit) for use as a database server. All you need is access to an SSH client and your server root credentials. Preparing the System The…
Sharing a screen SSH session
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Sharing your Session Assuming you start a screen session using screen -S david Ask your partner to connect using (assuming they are logged in using the same user account): screen -x david Now it’s simply magical. Multiple persons can type and work on the same terminal – it works best when you’re coordinating over the phone. Note…
Moving SSL Certs from IIS to Apache
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Some instructions for converting SSL certificates generated for IIS to private key, and cert files you can use on unix, or Apache for windows. First Export your IIS certificate into a pfx file (this is something you should do anyways for backup) Run mmc.exe Click the ‘Console’ menu and then click ‘Add/Remove Snap-in’. Click the ‘Add’ button…
Failed to run gitk: Error in startup script
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Gitk is a great tool for working with Git. Unfortunately after setting up git and X11 forwarding I got this error when running gitk. The error can easily be fixed by installing dejavu-sans-fonts. yum install -y dejavu-sans-fonts The result : Voila !
Php pecl config error on centos
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When installing php PECL On CentOS/RHEL (+cPanel) installations, if you get a “checking whether the C compiler works… configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs”, you may need to remount the /tmp and /var/tmp with exec permissions first: $ mount -o remount,exec,suid /tmp $ mount -o remount,exec,suid /var/tmp Then: $ pecl install {package} And, don’t forget…
locate: can not stat () `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db’
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Run updatedb first. You can run it manually from the command line. updatedb It should have scheduled itself as a cron job when you installed slocate. If you just installed slocate, it will not have run yet. Otherwise, make sure you have a cron daemon running and that there is an updatedb task scheduled. Also,…
Centos No-IP setup
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Howto Install no-ip utility in CentOS to fix dynamic ip issues using a subdomain from no-ip.org. First go to no-ip webpage http://www.no-ip.com Register and confirm your email, then login your account and add a host. Download the linux client As user root execute: cd;wget "https://www.no-ip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz" tar -xvf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz cd noip-2.1.9-1 make make install Create a configuration…