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″
Trying to update BIOS on Dell PowerEdge server running CentOS Linux may fail to complete with no further explanation even if all software requirement has been met do do the upgrade from the OS. This is because Dell does not recognize CentOS (which is a 100% RedHat binary compatible) as a supported OS (such as… Read More »
When installing and configuring Zimbra for the first time on RHEL/CentOS 6, it return that LDAP failed to initialize and then the config script exit. The log file probably indicate the following error : Initializing ldap… *** Running as zimbra user: /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmldapinitsudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection refused… Read More »
Do the following to find and replace text string in a whole file using the Vi text editor : 1. Enter in command mode by typing ” : ” 2. Your command should look like this : :%s/search_for_text/replace_with_this_text/g NOTE : To search & replace a string containing slashes ” / “, use a coma ”… Read More »
In some rare circumstances, your system may boot without network interface and you discover the following message in dmesg : udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 Since RHEL6, kudzu is no longer available since the kernel and udev take care of hardware changes. So, you need to modify using udev to get back you’re… Read More »
Here is the traditional way to set static route on Linux OS. route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1 The best way to make it permanent, is to add the gateway directly to the interface by editing the interface script : /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 add : GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 To remove a static route : route del -net… Read More »
Follow these steps to add a permanent static route to Windows. 1. Open the command prompt (must be done as administrator). 2. Enter the following command and replace with your network information : route -p add <NETWORK_IP> mask <NETMASK> <GATEWAY_IP> Let’s explain in details with the following IP information… assume we want to add a… Read More »