When I setup some maintenance scripts, I needed to copy some files from our CPanel servers to a central server for processing. After it was all setup, I discovered the server was sending an email with every crontab on the central server that only had one line of text: stdin: is not a tty After […]
By default, all new guests setup with VNC access listen on the local loopback (127.0.0.1) and on a seemingly random port that looks like 590x. The port is not exactly random, it starts with 0 and counts up for each VNC server it needs in the order that the KVM guest are starting. This can […]
When faced with testing applications, it is much easier to load an appliance. This will avoid the time sink of figuring out how to configure everything before you know if the software is what you want. In this case, I am going to test out Bareos Backup software on a Centos 7.0 KVM enabled server. […]
The problem is windows does not allow you to specify multiple username/passwords for mapping network drives. Consider connecting these folders: \\10.1.1.1\path1 username: sam \\10.1.1.1\path2 username: bob When you connect to the first path, it will ask for the username/password for sam. When you try to connect to the second path, it will simply tell you […]
After installing samba, take the following steps to add a samba share for a user. 1. In ISPConfig admin, click sites, select the domain and add a shell user. Note the password. 2. Add an appropriate config to /etc/samba/smb.conf Example Data: Client Name: someclient Domain Name: example.com Directory for example.com: /var/www/clients/client2/web2/web Shell username: example_s1 3. […]
When using OpenVZ, getting the VLAN working properly inside the container can be a tricky. This procedure will use a script hooked into OpenVZ to automate the management and creation of VLANs on a Centos 6.x host node running OpenVZ. Prerequisits The package vconfig must be installed The package bridge-utils must be installed Obviously, the […]