Category Archives: Linux

Linux Desktop for VMware Administration

Posted on 23 April 2014 by Chris

I recently replaced my daughters aging Toshiba laptop with a used MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro was much faster and she reallylikes working in OS X so it was a great fit for her needs. With the freeing up of … Continue reading →

Posted in Home Lab, Linux, vCenter, VMware, vSphere | 4 Comments

Script to Install Cacti on a CentOS or RHEL 6.5 host

Posted on 7 April 2014 by Chris

I while back I wrote a post about this script and it had since broken as some updates to RHEL/CentOS and rrdtool caused the script to crash. I updated it this weekend and verified it using a CentOS 6.5 x64 … Continue reading →

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MacBook Pro 8,3 Linux Success… Kinda

Posted on 23 January 2012 by Chris

In my previous post about my frustration getting Linux installed on my 8,3 MacBook Pro I mentioned that I could not get an installer to boot. Well, with Open SuSE 12.1 I was able to finally get the installer to … Continue reading →

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Script to install Cacti on CentOS 6 or Red Hat 6

Posted on 29 August 2011 by Chris

I have installed Cacti several times and it is a somewhat tedious process on a new system so I thought I would just build a small bash script to perform the install for me. This script will install everything needed … Continue reading →

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SSH Connection Sharing

Posted on 21 August 2011 by Chris

I was reading a post on a perl blog the other day and leaned about connection sharing in ssh. It allows you to open a ssh connection to a server and while that 1st connection is open, all subsequent connections … Continue reading →

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How to have a cifs (smb) share mount on startup with authentication

Posted on 3 August 2011 by Chris

If you want to have a smb share mount on start up on a Linux system there are several options. I think the easiest option is to embed the auth info in a file only readable by root. All you … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Samba, Sysadmin | 1 Comment