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.
Category Archives: Linux
Setting up VMware Server on Linux
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 new linux file system
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 directories between file systems
Copying files from one directory to another using find and cpio. cd /old_file_system/ find . -print -depth | cpio -pamVd /new_file_system/
Link down on RedHat Linux 3
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.
No output from the Console when connecting to a Server running on Linux
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.
Syslogd Stops working after installing VMWare Server
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
Mounting ISO in Linux
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.
Installing Java on Fedora Core 3 using JDK 1.4.2
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 […]
Setting up sshd for Public Key Authentication
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 […]