Monitoring your temperature hardware on Linux made easy with “lm_sensors“. On CentOS or RedHat Enterprise, you can easily install the software using Yum as followed : yum install lm_sensors Then, you need to configure the software to monitor your hardware. You will have to answer several YES/no questions to probe your system. Just do the… Read More »
Getting this alert with one of your server backup policy with R1Soft? “Error Server [11] reset(): database disk image is malformed(11)” This is because the VSS snapshot mechanism on Windows allow only one snapshot partition at a time. It’s likely that you are using the MSSQL plugin to backup your databases with MSSQL installed on… Read More »
Have you recently noticed the following error message in /var/log/secure with RHEL/CentOS 6? PAM unable to dlopen(/lib64/security/pam_fprintd.so): /lib64/security/pam_fprintd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory PAM adding faulty module: /lib64/security/pam_fprintd.so There is several bug reports regarding this. I think PAM is trying to load an inexistant module. You should be concerned only… Read More »
Getting this error while attempting to restore a Symantec Ghost image from DVD (or any optical media) under WinPE? Ghost Error Application error 437 cannot read from file The main causes are the following : – Image integrity check failed due to corrupted image and/or drive read error – Source image was created using compression… Read More »
NOTE : This article has been edited since the initial post due to change on the script and latests wget updates [22/12/2016]. If you are used to the popular “SpeedTest.net” Web site to test your bandwidth connection, then here is how to use the same tool but using your Linux terminal. 1. Download the python… Read More »
Having problems connecting to your server with SSH and get this error messages in the system logs? sshd[0000]: input_userauth_request: invalid user <user> sshd[0000]: error: Could not get shadow information for <user> sshd[0000]: Failed password for invalid user <user> from 0.0.0.0 port 00000 ssh2 This mean you are missing “UsePAM” directive and/or the directive is set… Read More »
Ending up with this error while trying to join a workstation to Active Directory domain? Computer Name/Domain Changes The following error occured attempting to join the domain “domain.local”: The network path was not found. The possible cause is one of the required services for Active Directory client computer is not started. Make sure those two… Read More »
Upgraded to Mac OSX Mavericks lately? Well, you’ll need to update MacPorts once you’re done to keep it working. To update MacPorts, just do the following command in Terminal : sudo port -v selfupdate The terminal will keep working running a bunch of scripts by itself, then you end up with the following output error… Read More »
After upgrading from CentOS/RHEL 5.9 to 5.10, you may noticed the following entry in the system logs [/var/log/messages] : automount[0000]: lookup_read_master: lookup(nisplus): couldn’t locate nis+ table auto.master Well, it appear there was a change of syntax since the previous version of “autofs” utility. I was able to get rid of this error removing the ”… Read More »
Got this error while your deployed Windows Server 2008 start up for the first time doing SysPrep? The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click “OK” to restart the computer, and then restart the installation. Well, you can get rid of this by editing the registry and… Read More »