Monthly Archives: April 2010

Mount Linux NFS exports in OSX

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

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