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 😉
Windows oddly.. but a good friend found this it’s on her site: http://rochcass.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/restart-an-asp-net-application-programmatically-without-editing-the-web-config/ to quote: Several times I would be working on a site and some data would not change due to session variables or the .NET cache. This can’t be eliminated by clearing the browser cache but would need the whole ASP.NET application to…
