We had a problem on a server df would hang and we knew that a cifs / samba share died and recovered. Trying unmount / with any parameters -l -f failed. Experience and google told us we need to reboot. This is a remote server and we know the shutdown hangs on going down so…
In windows (again I know …. ) sometimes you get reference to removed users ( and sometimes not so removed) in mmc and secpol looking like this : S-1-5-21-123456789-3881959548-123456789-500 To check the SIDs of users for some obscure bug like I had today use: wmic useraccount get name,sid That’s it .. ( ofcourse you can…
In windows (yes I know) you can check if a drive exists by using IF EXIST E:\NUL echo yep it does .. that’s it . nJoy 😉
zenity –info –text ‘You alert message’ This works on ubuntu and mint .. YMMV Simple nJoy 😉
Great tool for checking ethernet NIC information in linux: ethtool In ubuntu you might need to install it like so : sudo apt-get install ethtool The tool is easy to use: Use ifconfig -a to list nics then root@wo1:~# ethtool p4p1 Settings for p4p1: Supported ports: [ TP ] …
This is a hint from Andrew Thanks.. C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe -i yes -s 10.21.68.8 -u root -p password Works ! In a batch: start “VMLauncher” /D”C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\” VpxClient.exe -i yes -s 10.21.68.8 -u root -p password” Thanks nJoy 😉
You can convert DEB file to RPM package and RPM to DEB package using alien command, if you have a *.rpm file that you want to install on a Debian or Ubuntu. Convert RPM to DEB Install alien command on Ubuntu as mentioned here: # sudo apt-get install alien Now, use alien command to convert…
So .. Today I got a question asked to me : ” why did you leave programming to become a sysadmin? ” This came as a surprise question from a new friend I have. And it got me thinking… Why sysadmin ?
Common problem with kaltura.. Common solution … pkill searchd /opt/kaltura/bin/sphinx/searchd -c /opt/kaltura/app/configurations/sphinx/kaltura.conf nJoy 😉
