Vmware-Tools for RHEL5 and RHEL6 on ESXi 5.0u1 (I’m sorry the formatting is bad. My copy and paste didn’t layout as nice as I had hoped, but I’ll log in a fix it later. Import the VMware Keys: rpm --import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub rpm...
Boot into rescue mode, and let it automatically mount your harddrive. chroot /mnt/sysimage cd /boot/grub grub grub> setup (hd0) (hd1,0) or grub> setup (hd1) (hd1,0) One of the two choices above should work, since it appears that the grub needs to...
Boot into rescue mode, and let it automatically mount your harddrive. chroot /mnt/sysimage cd /boot/grub grub grub> setup (hd0) (hd1,0) or grub> setup (hd1) (hd1,0) One of the two choices above should work, since it appears that the grub needs to...
Starting a vnc server session remotely from the console: Edit the ~username/.vnc/xstartup # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc Remember, VNC isn’t secure. Make sure you encrypt the connection with an ssh tunnel or something...
I had to recover files from a mac harddrive that wouldn’t mount on a mac. I used my Centos5 box instead, and everything worked perfectly. # mkdir /mnt/mac # mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda1 /mnt/mac I had to use /dev/sda instead of sda1....
Syslog Server: Edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog and change this: SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0 -r -x" Restart syslog: # service syslog restart Syslog uses UDP port 514. Client : Edit /etc/syslog.conf and add the following line : *.* @loghost.example.com Restart the syslog service : # service...
