Technical stuff from a bit-head
Articles, write-ups, etc.
While using VMware’s API and pyVmomi to clone templates into a VM, a couple of times I have run into this error: Cannot deploy template: Customization of the guest operating system ‘rhel6_64Guest’ is not...
Been using a newer release of vim and dislike how, after you type a comment on a line, vim assumes you want the next line commented also? Or, more frustrating, have you pasted something...
(Update – Sept. 2, 2015) In some of the community samples, someone wrote a nice function to get different objects. As part of streamlining VM creation, I began working with VMware’s API. The first...
Short version (During a brief period where I used StartSSL for my SSL certs…) Had a problem with my mail server. Thunderbird was not accepting the Class 1 cert I got from StartCom. To...
1. Install the repo Actually before you set up the repo, you need the public keys: # rpm –import https://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub # rpm –import https://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub Then you can set up the repo by hand or...
If you’re wanting packages from the EPEL repos that are available to RHEL installations, it’s a simple thing to get them. You can start at the main Fedora repository for EPEL, and work your...
Introduction Had a client for whom I wanted to install syslog-ng. I’ve never worked with it before, but had read that it can log to a MySQL database. The project at hand seemed like...
Had a real adventure getting a WordPress site going on a CentOS 5.8 LAMP server. It came down to two major areas: packages and permissions. Packages I asked the hosting provider to install pretty...
I would include more links, etc., but I’m writing this in a bit of a rush. It is well-documented that Dell and Red Hat decided to modify how Linux names network devices, starting with...
In working with Red Hat Satellite Server 5.4.1, we had a problem with Dell PowerEdge R720 servers. When we kickstarted those systems to RHEL 5.7, using DHCP, the Tigon3 NIC would flap at the...