Category Archives: Linux

How to update a linux VMware servers serial number from a windows VMware console. Get the serial number from http://www.vmware.com Open up the VMware Server Console on the windows machine and login to the linux server as root. Click on Help -> Enter Serial Number Enter all the information required.

Instructions on how to setup VMware server on linux and access it from a windows machine. Pre-Setup Download VMware server rpm for Linux from http://www.vmware.com and register for a free serial number.  The current version is 1.0.3. Setup access to the server. See Installing Cygwin for Windows XP for instructions on how to setup access to the linux server. […]

Creating a ext3 file system on a new USB disk. Partition Table # /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 60801. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old […]

Copying files from one directory to another using find and cpio. cd /old_file_system/ find . -print -depth | cpio -pamVd /new_file_system/

On RedHat Enterprise 3 Linux on VMWare each interface link is always down. The following needs to be added to all the ifcfg-eth in /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ check_link_down() { return 1; } See http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/guestos_redhat90.html for more information.

The problem is that the vmx file is not executable.  Go to the VM directory and run: chmod 755 *.vmx Then restart the vmware server, output will then be displayed on the console.

Seems that VMWare server adds a new service to the /etc/service file.  If you have SELinux running the file’s security context changes. To fix run: /sbin/restorecon /etc/services For more information see http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=435464

To mount an ISO file in linux so it turns up as a directory structure do the following: mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso Simple as that.

Excellent Howto for setting up Tomcat5 from jpackage.org on RedHat Fedora Core3. http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/howto/jpackage-sun-fc3/ But required JDK 1.4.2 to be used in place of 1.5 Downloaded http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/jpackage/1.6/generic/non-free/SRPMS/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.07-1jpp.nosrc.rpm  rpm -Uvh java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.07-1jpp.nosrc.rpm Download the self extracting version j2dsk-1_4_2_07-linux-i586.bin from http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/1.4.2_07/index.html Moved it into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpmbuild -ba java-1.4.2-sun.spec Just need to install java and java-devel cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586 rpm -Uvh […]

To create key only authentication the users public key needs to be put on the server in their home directory under .ssh/authorizated_keys. Create the users private key on their workstation: # ssh-keygen -t rsa Send the private key to the server: # cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh newmachine “cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys” Make sure the authorized_keys file […]