I’m not a fan of OSX and I try to avoid it with the same veracity that I avoid Windows. But I recently needed to have a Linux NFS export mounted on an OSX server. A simple mount server:/export /mymountpoint didn’t work and returned “Operation not permitted”. After a bit of digging I found the …
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Keychain: a love once forgotten now found
I don’t know how many of you know that I am a recovering gentoo user. One of the staples of my desktop used to be keychain. Keychain is a simple wrapper for ssh-agent and gpg-agent. It eases the use of a single long running agent per system instead of per login session. For some reason …
How to get console on linux domU with XenServer (xm console equivlent)
Besides the gui/vnc consoles you can still use the equivlent of xm console in Citrix XenServer. On the host console: xe vm-list to get the list of domins running (just note the uuid of the domain you want). list_domains will list the domain name and the uuid of the domains. Match up your uuid so you …
Error Msg Fail: How to enable telnet on centos/rhel
Don’t even start with me about how telnet is horrid. Out side of my control but I recently had issues trying to enable telnet on a server. Typically its pretty straightforward. yum install telnet-server chkconfig telnet on chkconfig xinetd on service xinetd start Unfortunately for me this was not working. Every time I tried to telnet …
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