I’ve had troubles with vmware on redhat/fedora in the past. (See here or here) But I’ve now found a one stop solution to putting VMware on all things RedHat or Fedora. Follow the instructions in this (Broken link http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=76957&tstart=0) VMware forum post. This has worked for me with VMware Server on Fedora 6 and 7 and also VMware Workstation 6 on Fedora 7. Thanks Petr!

To restart things run:

# svcadm restart ssh

To list the currently known svcs use:

# svcs

Sun have a nice guide here on their BigAdmin site.

I’ve recently been caught out whilst trying to change the IP on a Solaris 10 machine. It used to be the /etc/hostname.pcn0 (or whatever type of interface it was) had o match the entry in /etc/hosts. Now it seems this isn’t the only place you need to make the change, you also need to change the IP in /etc/inet/ipnodes as-well, which is the same format as /etc/hosts

I’ve just discovered you can switch selinux into Permissive mode whilst the machine is running

This shows that we are currently enforcing:

# sestatus
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
Current mode:                   enforcing
Mode from config file:          enforcing
Policy version:                 21
Policy from config file:        targeted

To switch into permissive mood:

# setenforce Permissive

And another sestatus shows the change

# sestatus
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
Current mode:                   permissive
Mode from config file:          enforcing
Policy version:                 21
Policy from config file:        targeted

More pics from our week in Wales last year. This was a dark forest we went through whilst on the Ffestiniog.

Ollie and I went all the way east over to beyond Canary Wharf to watch the qualifying for the London round of the Red Bull Air Race. Nutters in planes basically. Utter Loons.

The sky might look like I’ve used a filter in these, but no it really was that dark!

I’ve a couple of machines running Centos 5 on Via Epia motherboards.

Sadly kernel versions up to and including 2.6.18 dont ship with the required vt1211 (Broken link http://hem.bredband.net/ekmlar/vt1211.html) kernel module. This means that both Centos and Redhat Enterprise 5 lack the module required to gather sensors data. Because it is a bit of a chore to patch the kernel source and compile the driver any I compile I’ll keep here.

i686 Kernels

• 2.6.18-8.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5-i686.ko.gz)

Documenting the use of this module is beyond the scope of this post, for information regarding that please see the home page for lm_sensors (Broken link ~~http://www.lm-sensors.org/~~).

Many thanks to Lars Ekman for writing and maintaining this module!

I quite like this wonky old bridge, the hand rail seems to be a popular place for the gulls to sit and let the world go by.