Converting crt to PEM
Took two steps:
openssl x509 -in input.crt -out input.der -outform DER
openssl x509 -in input.der -inform DER -out output.pem -outform PEM
In my post just below, I have defined a set of tests to verify the possible cause of the tg3 problem. It had nothing to do with autoneg, and was fixed in RHEL 4 Update 4. That 32bit installer works correctly. One last thing to test – rebuild the installer initrd, and replace tg3 module…
This is a rather common knowledge now that on RHEL4 you need to state inside /etc/modprobe.conf the following line, when you want more than one bonding interfaces: options bonding max_bonds=2 Then you attempt to use a trick to address different bonding devices with their name (aka, bond0 and bond1, and maybe bond2, etc), using an…
A friend of mine made a grieve mistake – partition a disk containing Linux LVM directly on it, without any partition table. Oops. When dealing with multi-Tera sized disks, one gets to encounter limitations not known on smaller scales – the 2TB limitation. Normal partition table can contain only around 2TB mapping, meaning that to…
While searching the web for how to perform PCI-Passthrough on XenServers, we mostly get info about previous versions. Since I have just completed setting up PCI-Passthrough on XenServer version 6. 5 (with recent update 8, just to give you some notion of the exact time frame), I am sharing it here. Hardware: Cisco UCS blades,…
I am using autofs (or automout) to handle shares presented on an NFS server I am using. When I am not home, or when the server is inaccessible, I do not want to be delayed by autofs failure to mount. This failure could take a long while, causing Autofs delay mount. During that time –…
cat /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/$Z” where Z represents the SCSI interface the Qlogic has taken for itself, you’ll get something like this: <Snip> . . </Snip> SCSI LUN Information: (Id:Lun) * – indicates lun is not registered with the OS. ( 0: 0): Total reqs 63185608, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x2, 0:0:81 00 Assuming you’ve just added the…