http://mainesysadmin.com SysAdmin in Maine Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:16:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SSH over to the ESX server required.  You'll need sudo or root access to complete the following. To view the file:  cat /etc/syslog.conf To modify the file:  vi /etc/syslog.conf (google for vi help if required, i = insert.  esc = exit insert mode) Move to the bottom of the file and add the ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/12/17/howto-vmware-esx-35-and-remote-syslog-configuration/ My previous posting is no longer valid.  Gnome has removed the tab for the sounds menu where you can use the gui to disable the system beep.  Here's how you can disable this from the CLI. sudo rmmod pcspkr Done deal.  If you want your system beep back, well first off...curse you ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/11/25/howto-disable-the-system-beep-from-cli-in-ubuntu-810/ This vague message turned into a nightmare for myself this past Sunday.  I was able to get the problem fixed with minimal downtime as the issue only came up during a Sunday maint. window (ironic). I had patched my ESX hosts to Update2 (patched version) and started receiving the error "VMware ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/11/18/vmware-ha-agent-has-an-error/ For a task that is REALLY easy it took a more googling than I had anticipated to come up with the solution.  Once your volume has been delivered to the server it is important to initialize the disk but not to create any partitions. Open Windows Disk management. Click Action -> Rescan ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/10/24/howto-create-a-volume-greater-than-2-terabytes-in-win2k3-min-sp1/ Scott featured a nice write up comparison of ESX nic utilization and vSwitch configuration the other day.  The article is specifically around the Guest VM vSwitch and compares the differences between Link Aggregation and the opposite.  It's a useful reminder of the load balancing characterists of the different settings in ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/10/10/vmware-esx-nic-configuration-utilization/ I love lifehacker.com.  I always find usefull posts like this one below. http://lifehacker.com/5057484/remove-u3-to-speed-up-your-flash-drive This is very useful for us Linux users.  It's so annoying to plug a u3 drive into a linux o/s.  Anyhow download the utility and clean up your U3 enabled usb thumb drive here:  http://www.u3.com/uninstall/default.aspx http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/10/07/howto-remove-the-u3-system-from-your-thumb-drive/ Before recently I had not required to publish any flash animations with a windows server running IIS6.  Come to find out that it is really easy to do.  I ran across the following blog below with the correct information.  I'll include the steps below the url for posterity. http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/rymoore/adding-flv-mime-type-in-iis-4198 Adding .flv MIME ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/10/07/how-to-publish-flash-animation-with-iis6/ There is so much great software available for ubuntu. This weekend I ran into subsonic, an excellent music streaming website you can host from your own PC. This can be used over LAN or WAN (be careful with security). I followed the following url's excellent instructions, but I'll include ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/09/29/how-to-install-subsonic-on-ubuntu/ Browsing around lifehacker.com I ran across an article on how to create a bootable linux usb thumbdrive. This is by far the easiest method that I've run across. Download the utility. Open the utility and download one of the supported linux iso's. Plug your usb thumb drive into your computer (utility is ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/09/11/how-to-create-a-bootable-linux-usb-thumb-drive-the-easy-way/ I've been working a quirky sub-domain 404 issue and I found a quick and clean redirect script. Instead of a nasty 404 page you can redirect the web request to the index page. I found the helpful script here: http://css-tricks.com/how-to-redirect-indexhtml-to-indexphp/ I deleted whatever text was in 404.php and ... http://mainesysadmin.com/2008/08/25/how-to-redirect-404-to-index-page-via-php/