Suppose the Disk is /dev/sdb, the second scsi disk, fdisk /dev/sdb create as many partitions as you need using command n Label them with command t as 8e for making it Linux LVM Write and Exit with the command w. Format the partitions you require using mkfs command mkfs -t ext3 -c /dev/sdb1 LVM commands…
Month: December 2012
Test if memcache is installed in php from bash line
php -i | grep -i memcache Short and sweet sample output : memcache memcache support => enabled memcache.allow_failover => 1 => 1 memcache.chunk_size => 8192 => 8192 memcache.default_port => 11211 => 11211 memcache.default_timeout_ms => 1000 => 1000 memcache.hash_function => crc32 => crc32 memcache.hash_strategy => standard => standard memcache.max_failover_attempts => 20 => 20 memcached memcached support…
Using Expect to automate an scp filetransfer
Sometimes you know passwords but are not ion a position to use shared keys. Solution is using expect to pass the password from a script read or a comman line parameter. ** NOTE Passwords in command lines are a really bad idea since you can see them in the history / ps -ef so best…
ESXi 5.1 : Fixing ‘Failed to deploy OVF package: The task was canceled by a user.
Where I work, we love using OVA templates to speed up our deployment of virtual machines. I recently upgraded one of my servers to ESXi 5.1 (which also required an update to vSphere). ESXi 5.1 provides support for Windows 8 and Server 2012, which is incredibly useful. However, whilst building OVA templates for these operating…
SVN checkout fails to authenticate
When running: svn checkout https://mysvn.mydomain.com:8443/svn/Linux/trunk/scripts/ –username *** –password ‘****’ I got : WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn’t connect to: /tmp/keyring-fTq763/pkcs11: No such file or directory Password for ‘default’ GNOME keyring: ***** svn: OPTIONS of ‘https://mysvn.mydomain.com:8443/svn/Linux/trunk/scripts’: authorization failed: Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge (mysvn.mydomain.com:8443) Problem could be damaged keyring or wrong keyring password. To fix…
SSH through HTTP proxy
This article explains how to connect to a ssh server located on the internet from a local network protected by a firewall through a HTTPS proxy. Requirement are : Your firewall has to allow HTTPS connections through a proxy You need to have root access to the server where ssh is listening Configure the ssh…
Take picture from webcam using linux command line (bash)
From bash it’s easy to snap a photo from the webcam. mplayer -vo png -frames 1 tv:// That’s it.. Njoy 🙂