Archive for August, 2008

Power Down Your Computer On 27 Aug 2008

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

HP, Intel and Citrix have joined forces in a commitment to save energy, but we need your help. On August 27, power down your computer, monitor, and printer at the end of the day. We’ll calculate the number of people who Power IT Down, and post the results on this page. Plus, we’ll donate a [...]

Red Hat webcast UNIX to Linux- Rearchitecting for the Future

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

UNIX to Linux: Rearchitecting for the future.
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Time: 2 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Joel Berman, Director Marketing Strategy, Red Hat
Erich Morisse, Marketing Manger, Red Hat
Overview:
Want to get more consistency and speed from your systems? Learn about migrating to Linux, the cost-effective solution to making your systems more horizontally scalable.
Receiving winning benchmarks even before it [...]

SSH problem

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I can’t login to the server using SSH and the TELNET service is NOT enable by default. Thanks god, I have DELL DRAC enable, I managed to login using console.
I’m getting an error messages in /var/log/messages and SSH connection refused error on one of my SuSE Linux box as below:
Aug 2 16:20:05 planetmy sshd[22531]: fatal: [...]

Basic vmware-cmd VM Management tips

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Sometimes using a command line is much more faster than using GUI. Personally I found VMware Virtual Center always have bugs. The following article will guide you how to use vmware-cmd VM management tool for some basic VMware administrative tasks.
The figure below illustrates states, transitions, and state changing commands for virtual machines.

List path and names [...]

Using Active Directory for SuSE Linux 10 Authentication

Monday, August 18th, 2008

My previous post about How to Authenticate to Active Directory on SuSE Linux 9 & How to join Fedora Core 6 Samba Server to Windows 2003 Active Directory talked about using Microsoft Active Directory(AD) for Linux authentication. Yes! Linux & Microsoft can be friends.
Now we talk about SuSE Linux 10 and Microsoft AD authentication.
Basically everything [...]