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Upgrade ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1

Aug

1

2010

Prior to the upgrade, a backup of the ESXi configuration is recommended. This backup can be done using the vicfg-cfgbackup command that is part of the ESXi CLI. The CLI can be installed in Windows or Linux.

Configure Linux client for BackupPC

Mar

24

2010

Instructions to add a linux client to an existing BackupPC installation. These are also good instructions for allowing automatic login from another PC. The full how-to can be found at HowToForge. Log into BackupPC with backuppc user at http://ServerIP/backuppc. Click the link to “Edit Hosts” and add the hostname of the new client. Add the ...

Outbound mail

Dec

19

2009

I recently set up a security camera and wanted to be able to mail myself security events. The first thing I had to do was get AT&T to open port 25 from my house. This was painlessly done by asking an agent in the online support chat. Within a minute of asking if it can ...

Using Kickstart

Mar

4

2009

I started working with kickstart files to install CentOS today. I used a combination of two KS files that were automatically created for me during previous installs. I liked the partitioning scheme from one and the rest of the options from another. One thing that took me a bit to figure out was how to ...

Changing UID/GID in CentOS

Jan

20

2009

CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora create users/groups beginning with 500 where all other distros (that I’m aware of) begin with 1000. Since I use the same account throughout all my servers and have shares mounted between them, it is much easier if my UID/GID matches between systems. I have found it rather easy to change on CentOS as ...

rdesktop info

Jan

20

2009

Found a few useful options for rdesktop to be able to share a clipboard as well as a local disk. This will share the clipboard and a local path with the remote server. rdesktop -u -r clipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD -r disk:=/share/path 1.2.3.4 </blockquote Found this useful information here: pandaeatsbamboo.blogspot.com

Automount SAMBA shares

Jan

4

2009

I set up a SAMBA share on my CentOS server so that I could easily transfer files back and forth to other computers. I set up an auto mount on my laptop so that it would only attempt to mount the share when I need it. Took a few tries to get the syntax correct, ...

CentOS X11vnc

Jan

4

2009

I found this page while looking for VNC options on my new CentOS server and decided to give x11vnc a try. I have already had several occasions while I was sitting on my couch that I wished I could log into the X session that I already had running on the monitor in the other ...

Making a VM server

Jan

2

2009

I have almost finished building the system I am going to use as a MythTV Frontend, but in the meantime I have decided to put the system together and make a VM server to learn RedHat related things a little better. First thing I did was try to install CentOS from a DVD I had ...