Author: sotech
-
Using rsync with a non-standard SSH port
There are many reasons you may be using an SSH port other than 22; perhaps you changed it as a security measure, or perhaps you have multiple machines behind your firewall which you are port forwarding to and thus have to use other ports in addition to 22. Rsync is an extremely powerful file…
-
New Intel Motherboard in-house: S1200KPR Mini-ITX Server board
We’ve been building a few mini servers with these lately and finally found the time for a bit of a write-up – we’re almost finished, so keep your eyes peeled for a review shortly!
-
MySQL: Changing the root user’s password
If you need to change the MySQL root user’s password use the following from a command prompt: mysqladmin -u root -p password NEWPASSWORD Enter the current root password when prompted and replace NEWPASSWORD with the desired password. This should return you to the command prompt, and you can test whether it was…
-
ESXi: Entering and exiting maintenance mode via command line
Following on from yesterday’s post, here is how to enter or leave maintenance mode on an ESXi host via SSH: vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter to go into maintenance mode – and to leave it: vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit If you’re interested in other useful commands, you can see more hostsvc options by running: …
-
ESXi: Determining maintanance mode status from the command line
If you need to know if a host is in maintenance mode via the command line, SSH into your server and run the following: vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep -i maintenance This will return the following line (in this example the host is NOT in maintenance mode): inMaintenanceMode = false, To see…
-
How to find which version of ESXi you’re running from the command line?
If you’re remotely logging in to a server to apply the latest patch but can’t remember whether you’re running 4, 4.1, 5.0 or 5.1 – and it can certainly happen when you’re managing quite a few of them remotely – there is a handy command to see which version and build number you’re actually…
-
Lightroom 4: “Sort” option/dropdown box missing from Library view
This one isn’t related to computer parts for a change but is something that happens to me regularly – I’ll import a handful of photos and want to sort them by capture time, but the “sort” box is missing from the Library view in Lightroom 4.0. You can bring it back by pressing T.…
-
Y2K memories…
Found this little gem when going through some old gear a few weeks ago; Hard to believe it was only 13 years ago – feels like much more. Oh the memories… Happy New Year everyone.
-
Intel SSD 330 120GB benchmarks
As promised, here are some benchmarks of Intel’s SSD: An average of 390MB/s for sequential reads? Nice. IOPS: HD Tune Pro’s File Transfer test: Hovering around 500MB/s there – impressive. Last benchmark for now: Overall this is a well performing drive and is the only Sandforce-controller-based drive that we currently use.
-
How to restart NFS server on Ubuntu
Once you set up your NFS exports by adding lines to /etc/exports you need to restart your NFS server; do this with the following: sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart You should see output along the lines of: * Stopping NFS kernel daemon [ OK ] * Unexporting directories for NFS kernel daemon… [ OK…