Recently I installed a server with a Supermicro SMC2108 RAID adapter, which is actually a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260. LSI created a command line utility called MegaCLI for Linux to manage this adapter. You can download it from their support pages. The downloaded archive contains an RPM file. I installed mc and rpm on Debian with…
Month: June 2013
“Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported and/or invalid disk type 8” error when trying to power on a VM on ESXi 4
Convert the file to zerothick type. vmkfstools -i uda20.vmdk -d zeroedthick uda20z.vmdk nJoy;-)
Using Stunnel to Encrypt Unsecure Connections
So you’re a fully signed up ‘tin foil hatter’ and you have an old app that communicates over the internet but doesn’t use SSL? Not to worry, there is a solution for you and its called stunnel. Stunnel is available for both Linux and Windows, and simply put creates an SSL tunnel from one machine…
Change Hostname Permanently on Debian or Ubuntu
Debian based systems use the file /etc/hostname to read the hostname of the computer at boot time and set it up using the init script /etc/init.d/hostname.sh We can edit the file /etc/hostname and change the hostname and then run: /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start Steps: 1. sudo vim /etc/hostname 2. Save the file with the hostname you like…
Setting the JAVA_HOME automatically.
JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f /usr/bin/javac | sed “s:bin/javac::”)