You hope that you won’t ever need to, but you may one day need to run fsck on a Linux XenServer VM that won’t boot.. no worries, attach the storage from that VM on another VM and run it from there! Continue Reading…
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Ever have to check a list of Linux servers for various things like what version of CentOS they’re running, maybe how long each has been running to get an uptime report? You can – and it’s very easy to get going with it.
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If you are using nagios in your hosting environment and need to install nrpe on your XenServer servers, here’s a good way to do it.
I’m using XenServer 6.1 (latest version). Continue Reading…
Often, you’ll go looking for a shell command that you used in the past – you can remember around when you did it but of course that won’t help you because by default the bash history won’t show you dates/times. Here is an easy way to remedy that. It won’t go into the past and give you dates, but from this point forward you’ll know when commands were executed. Continue Reading…
