How to update a linux VMware servers serial number from a windows VMware console. Get the serial number from http://www.vmware.com Open up the VMware Server Console on...

Instructions on how to setup VMware server on linux and access it from a windows machine. Pre-Setup Download VMware server rpm for Linux from http://www.vmware.com and register for...

Creating a ext3 file system on a new USB disk. Partition Table # /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 60801. There is...

Copying files from one directory to another using find and cpio. cd /old_file_system/ find . -print -depth | cpio -pamVd /new_file_system/

On RedHat Enterprise 3 Linux on VMWare each interface link is always down. The following needs to be added to all the ifcfg-eth in /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ check_link_down()...

The problem is that the vmx file is not executable.  Go to the VM directory and run: chmod 755 *.vmx Then restart the vmware server, output...

Seems that VMWare server adds a new service to the /etc/service file.  If you have SELinux running the file's security context changes. To fix run: /sbin/restorecon...

To mount an ISO file in linux so it turns up as a directory structure do the following: mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso Simple...

Excellent Howto for setting up Tomcat5 from jpackage.org on RedHat Fedora Core3. http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/howto/jpackage-sun-fc3/ But required JDK 1.4.2 to be used in place of 1.5 Downloaded http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/jpackage/1.6/generic/non-free/SRPMS/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.07-1jpp.nosrc.rpm  rpm -Uvh java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.07-1jpp.nosrc.rpm Download...

To create key only authentication the users public key needs to be put on the server in their home directory under .ssh/authorizated_keys. Create the users...