I recently experience this error repeated many times (about once every 11 minutes) in system log (/var/log/message) on FreeBSD system : cron[xxxxxx]: _secure_path: cannot stat /etc/login.conf: Permission denied Apparently, it look like the folder /etc lose his permission ; currently 700 (drwx——) and should be 755 (drwxr-xr-x) owned by root and wheel group of course.… Read More »
There is a ton of reasons why you would use SSH keys to log into your Linux/Unix systems automatically : – Faster than entering password – More secure than password – Automate login for backup using Rsync – And a lot more ! Actually, this is pretty easy to do – so let’s start generating… Read More »
To install VMware Tools from the ESX repository on RedHat/CentOS Linux guests using YUM, you need first to install the public key : rpm –import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub [Updated 06/03/12 : key URL has changed. Old location : http://packages.vmware.com/tools/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-KEY.pub)] Now, you need to create the repository file located in /etc/yum.repos.d : vi /etc/yum.repos.d/vmware-tools.repo And then, paste the… Read More »
Here are the few steps to generate the private key, certificate signed request, self-signed certificate and how to get rid of the passphrase request when starting you’re application . Okay, let’s start. Go to the directory you want to store you’re certificate stuff. This example will assume you’re common name (aka : host name) will… Read More »
Get this error running “wget” on FreeBSD 8.2? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libz.so.6” not found, required by “wget” Simply go to the library directory and create a symbolic link like this to get it working : cd /usr/lib/ ln -s libz.so libz.so.6
First, avoid any problem by getting two identical hard drive (or at least, same size and speed at least if not from same manufacturer). This tutorial assume both your hard disk are “da0” and “da1“. If you don’t know you’re devices name, simply use “dmesg” or “df -h” command to find out. First, let’s temporary… Read More »
To search and replace across multiple text file on a Linux/Unix system, use the following command : find . -name “*.extension” -print | xargs sed -i ‘s/search_for_text/replace_with_text/g’ So, as example, let’s assume you want to replace an IP address in multiple Bind zone file (using the extension .hosts) and replace IP address 10.10.1.1 for 192.168.1.1… Read More »
On Windows Vista/7, there is no GUI option to rename a power plan. You must use the “powercfg” command line utility to achieve this task. Open the command line (Start, Run – or type directly in the bottom search bar) : cmd Then, in the command prompt, type this command to list all power plan… Read More »
On a multi DC (Windows 2003 – 2008) Active Directory, you may encounter the following NTDS event : Active Directory failed to create an index for the following attribute. Attribute identifier: 591789 Attribute name: msFVE-RecoveryGuid A schema cache update will occur 5 minutes after the logging of this event and will attempt to create an… Read More »
Edit /boot/loader.conf and set the following value to ” 1 ” : hint.acpi.0.disabled=”1″