Author: jbmurphy
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Changing NIC order in 2008 R2 SP1
I can never remember how to change the NIC order in 2008 R2. Navigate to “Networking Connections” and then hit “Alt” to bring up the menu. There you can find “Advanced” menu and the “Advanced Settings” option. There has to be an easier way, but that is the only way I know hot to get…
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OS X: Running a script when a USB drive is inserted
I rsync all my data to a USB drive that I keep at work. I wanted a way to have my rsync script automatically run when I plugged in the drive – kinda like Time Machine. It ended up being pretty simple. All I needed to do is create and AppleScript and attach it to…
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Running a BASH script when my Laptop is opened at home – Part 2
As I mentioned in this post I should be able to run a script to find my current gateway’s MAC address. With this info, I should be able to tell when I am home, and launch a script. In this post, I talk about sleepwatcher, which runs a script when the machine is woken up. Sleepwatcher…
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How to remove a machine from a RHN Satellite
I wanted to move a VM from a RHN Satellite back to the default Red Hat Network. I found these two files contained all the info: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid I just moved them aside and ran rhn_register to re-register the system. Then I ran “yum clean all” to make yum happy
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Rebuild your the default CentOS yum.repo.d folder
On a dev machine, somehow, I managed to erase my yum.repo.d contents. I wanted to rebuild the repo files back to their default. First you need to figure out what version you are using: cat /etc/redhat-release Then visit the correct release at : http://vault.centos.org/ navigate to the correct os/x86_64/CentOS/ directory (could be os/x86_64/CentOS/ i386/) Download the following files to…
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Install VMware ESX4.1 via PXE
We recently received 2 new servers that I needed to install the newest ESX on. I downloaded the IOSs, but I did not want to have to burn them. So I decided to try and install ESX via PXE. I did not have an answer file (kickstart), so I wanted to run an interactive install from PXE.…
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xcopy: permissions,recursive,incremental
I can never remember xcopy’s flags, so I am creating a post for myself. xcopy SourceDrivePath DestDrivePath /X /C /E /H /Y /D /X Perms /C continue on error /E Recursive with empty folders /H (hidden and system) Copy hidden and system files /Y (yes) No Prompts /D (date) SourceDate is newer then DestDate (incremental)
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PowerShell Function to get uptime on multiple computers
I wanted to create a function that I could use to find the uptime of several workstations. I did not want to read a list of machine name from csv, I just wanted pass a list of workstation names and get their uptime back. I also added a ping check to make sure the machine…
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php53 included in CentOS 5.6
I wish I read release notes, it would make my life easier. In my previous post, I was worried about CentOS 5.x not having a new enough version of PHP to run the soon to be release WordPress 3.2. Well, RedHat’s 5.6 release notes clearly say: Version 5.3.3 of PHP is now available in Red…
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“error establishing a database connection” in a previously working WordPress site
My site just crashed!!! I received the oh-so-helpful error “establishing a database connection” when I went to my site. Other sites on the server were fine. The site was working fine, and my config had not changed. The httpd error log showed nothing. Then I found this in the MySQL logs (/var/log/mysqld.log) [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Table…