I have set up a small script to allow me to dial-up using my cell to the internet. The speed of the 3G connection is quite amazing, and this information would assist, I’m sure, others as well. I am using Bluetooth to communicate between my cell and my portable computer. Steps: 1. Create an /etc/wvdial.conf…
This is an interesting bug I have encountered: The output of an sssu command should look like this: EVA> DELETE STORAGE “Virtual DisksLinuxoracleSNAP_ORACLE” EVA> It still leaves the snapshot (SNAP_ORACLE in this case) visible, until the web interface is used to press on “Ok”. This happened to me on HP EVA with HP StorageWorks Command…
We are about to have a stand in a show in Israel. To pull some attention, I have searched for a method to automate a random rotation of the famous Beryl/Compiz cube. An extension of the method provided in here (using macros) is demonstrated below, using a script. This is a bit more complicated, as…
When one wants to achieve fast provisioning of virtual machines, some solutions might come into account. The one I prefer uses Linux LVM snapshot capabilities to duplicate one working machine into few.
This can happen, of course, only if the host running VMware-Server is Linux.
LVM snapshots have one vast disadvantage
A while ago, a newer version of Cacti became available through Dag’s RPM repository. An upgrade went without any special events, and was nothing to write home about. A failure in one of my customer’s Cacti system lead me to test the system using “spine” – the “cactid” new generation. I felt as if it…
This is the error message I have seen in my Linux+Postfix+Amavisd-new system. Not only that, but Amavis has kept a copy of each message in its tmp directory, which reduced my /var size to nothing quite rapidly. amavis[21189]: (21189-01) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-200 80103T051116-21189 Doesn’t sound too good. Partial search in google has produced the…
