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VMware Server is a handy app to run in places where server virtualization is needed, but you can’t justify the expense or effort required to setup a VMware ESXi or Xen host. One of the reoccurring problems that I run into, even on lightly loaded servers is when trying to log into the VMware Infrastructure Web Access interface, the browser gets stuck at “Loading…”, and never brings up the login form. I’ve observed this on Firefox in Linux, Mac OS X and Windows; as well as within Internet Explorer. It turns out that the fix for this doesn’t involve the browser at all, but rather a VMware Server settings. Some Googling turned up this thread in VMware Communities, which spells out the following fix: Edit /etc/vmware/webAccess/proxy.properties Change the following line:proxy.noCache = false…to: proxy.noCache = true Restart the vmware-mgmt service: /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart That’s it! You may need to refresh your browser one more time after this, but after completing these steps, you should now be prompted to login to VMware Infrastructure Web...
The ACM, or the Association of Computing Machinery describes itself as “the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society”. Until recently, I assumed that since I was out of academia, and focused more on things that sysadmins do, like developing, and implementing real-world solutions than the stuff of research papers, the ACM didn’t have much to offer me. A contributor to this bias was the fact that I joined the ACM a few years ago while I was in college. I was working with a couple professors on a project that involved using Linux virtualization to teach networking concepts. Anyway, the reason I joined the ACM was that I was asked to give a presentation at an academic computing conference. As I recall, the two requirements for being a presenter were having a .edu email address (check), and ACM membership. I quickly signed up, and failed to investigate what benefits ACM membership would bring. Fast forward to today. I spend a lot of time reading to keep up on current technologies, and while I am able to do most of this online, I still spend a lot of money each year buying books. A significant portion of these are published by O’Reilly, which writes a lot of excellent Linux, Unix, and development books. Cisco Press’ books make up another significant portion of my collection. Most of the networking products that I work with run either Linux or one of the BSDs, but I’m yet to find a publisher that consistently covers such a wide range of networking topics as well as Cisco Press does. Many of these O’Reilly and...
Just a quick note on the command to use to start up a RHEL / CentOS 5.x install from the serial console. This can come in handy if you’re using a modem and serial port for out of band management, and the need to conduct a remote reinstall arises. These settings start up a console on ttys0 (Serial Port 1) with the standard 9600/8-N-1 settings. linux...
I recently installed a vsftpd FTP server on a CentOS Linux 5.2 box. After changing the FTP user’s home directory, I received the following error message every time I attempted to login as ftp: 500 OOPS: cannot change directory500 OOPS: child died Permissions were setup correctly on the ftp user’s home directory, so I did some digging around, and discovered that there’s an SELinux setting that causes this problem. I didn’t want to turn SELinux off, so the solution was to run the following command, which enables access to the ftp user’s home directory. setsebool -P...
Firefox’s download manager doesn’t have a built-in mechanism for resuming failed downloads. My Internet connection was cut off just long enough this morning for a Firefox download of an ISO image to fail. To resume the download, I used the wget command, which is built into most Linux distributions, and installable if you’re running OS X or Windows. If you’re running Windows you can download wget from GnuWin32. If you’re running OS X, you can install wget with DarwinPorts. To resume the failed Firefox download, open up a terminal, change to the directory that the is located in, and issue the wget command with the -c option. The -c option tells wget to continue the failed Firefox download. For example: cd Downloadswget -c...
When using rm to delete a large number of files, you may come up against a kernel limitation which limits the length of arguments that can be sent to rm: $ rm * bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long This one-liner utilizes xargs to bypass this limitation: ls | xargs...
I’m always forgetting the command that’s needed to start CPAN’s configuration wizard back up after its initial setup. To reconfigure CPAN, just execute the follow command from the CPAN prompt: o conf init
Here are the settings that I used to get a Linksys PAP2T-NA working with Gizmo: Browse to the PAP2T-NA’s web page, for example http://192.168.111.100 Click the PAP2T-NA’s “Admin Login” link Click on the “Line 1” tab Fill in the following three values, and hit submit: Proxy: proxy01.sipphone.com Display Name: Your Name User ID: Your Gizmo SIP number, for example 17471234567 Password: Your Gizmo password Click the “Save Settings” button That’s it! Your Linksys PAP2T-NA is now configured to use your Gizmo...
I’m currently performing an online upgrade from SLES 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10) to SLES 10 SP2. While following Novell’s instructions on upgrading from SLES 10 to SLES SP1, I hit the error message below: sles10-32bit:~ # switch-update-serverYou use an internal update server. Abort. The fix was to edit /usr/bin/switch-update-server , comment out the following lines, then run switch-update-server again. # check if there is a old or new update server#if ! echo "$CHECK_URIS" | grep -F "$NEW_SERVER_NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1 &&# ! echo "$CHECK_URIS" | grep -F "$OLD_SERVER_NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1; then# # no old and no new update server => not registered or use an internal mirror# # no need to switch# echo "You use an internal update server. Abort." >&2# echo "You use an internal update server. Abort."# exit...
Windows XP Professional offers a Remember my password checkbox when mapping to a network drive, or other password protected network resource. Unfortunately, once you’ve set a password, the Remember my password box disappears, so future username or password changes can result in repeated password prompts. Here’s how to clear your previously set username and password, and get the Remember my password checkbox back: Click Start -> Run Type in control userpasswords2, and press Enter Click on the Advanced tab Click the Manage Passwords button Select the server for which you wish to delete existing settings, then click the Remove button Click Close Click OK Logout of Windows XP, then back in Connect to the password protected server. You should now be prompted for your username and password, along with the previously missing Remember my password checkbox The above may work in other version of Windows, but I haven’t tested this out. Please post a comment if you’ve been able to use this procedure to get the Remember my password box back under your Windows...
