Archive for the ‘Sysadmin’ Category
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
You might want to use PFDAVAdmin on Exchange 2007 (to set public folder user rights for example) and run into this error; Could not expand https://yourexchange.yourdomain.local/ExAdmin/Admin/.... Name cannot begin with the '0' character, hexadecimal value 0x30. Line 1, position 399. You should either install ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Exchange Server 2007 issues itself a self-signed certificate for use with services like SMTP, IMAP, POP, IIS and UM. The certificate is issued for a period of one year.
The self-signed certificate meets an important need - securing communication for Exchange services by default. Nevertheless, one should treat these self-signed certificates ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
If you want to install a certificate to in Filezilla you can create a self-signed certificate.
If you want to create a certificate via a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) or use an existing certificate you need to export and import it to the correct type (for filezilla this is PEM).
More information ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Install Dell OpenManage on RHEL (CentOS, Redhat, etc) like this;
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.5/bootstrap.cgi | bash
yum install srvadmin-all
srvadmin-services.sh start
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Here’s a quick howto on how to migrate IIS6 sites to IIS7. Install the Web Deployment Tool (x64/x86) on both the source as destination IIS machine. Select a custom install on the source machine and choose to install the remote service as well. On the destination ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.3 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures.
CentOS-5.3 is based on the upstream release EL 5.3.0, and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
To use a volume larger than 2GB it needs the GPT volume label in stead of MSDOS. I used this with Openfiler 2.3. You can change it like this. THIS REMOVES ALL DATA! parted /dev/sdb
mklabel GPT
quit
Check:
parted /dev/sdb print
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-2000000.000 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor ...
Posted in Linux, Storage, Sysadmin | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
History is a common command for shell to list out all the executed commands. It is very useful when it comes to investigation on what commands was executed that tear down the server or to find that one command you used in the past.
If the command line history could provides ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
In recent Windows 2003 server or Vista installations you might get this error when trying to launch an executable file: Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. SOLUTION: Right click the file, select Properties. On ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
- Boot the server with a Centos cd.
- Press [F5-Rescue]:; > [linux rescue]
- Don't startup the network interfaces
- Skip mounting the filesystem (don't even mount it read-only !)
lvm vgchange --ignorelockingfailure -P -a y
fdisk -l
The output will be something like this:
Disk /dev/sda: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders
Units ...
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