I had inadvertently set up slave replication using the wrong channel name - which is a minor issue except that it caused some issues with an already configured Nagios check. To 'change' the channel name I stopped the slave process, removed all the slave... » More
Using CentOS 7 this problem arose after a reboot and NFS shares would not mount. Trying to start the rpcbind service: gave the following error message via jounralctl -xe : So it looks like was set in /etc/sysctl.conf But this wasn't yet... » More
Use fallocate to create a new 300 MB file : Create an ext4 file system within the image file: Create a mount point: mount it: Then on the Dell iDRAC use the 'Virtual Media' menu to 'Map Removable Disk...' : Then on the host... » More
I was running this docker image proxied via traefik but I was receiving an error message in the Nagios web interface: docker nagios Error: Could not read object configuration data And in the logs from the container: To solve the issue I connected to... » More
On a Dell server I needed to determine the physical hard drive location for a faulty disk. Within the operating system the disk was mounted as /dev/sdk so I ran: And from the output I could correlate this with the information in the iDRAC: So... » More
I'm currently using Linux Mint and wanted to communicate with the iDRAC interfaces on Dell servers. Install racadm: Test with: or if you want to be prompted for login credentials use: Example racadm commands Dump lots of info: Get... » More
I was helping a friend with creating a video and we need to mask out the distracting content around the video subject. If I had this problem with a static image I would use Gimp and the 'Crop' tool but I couldn't find anything in Kdenlive to allow me to... » More
It took me a little digging to re-discover the name of this tool that allows remotely logging RDP users off from other servers so I thought I would write it down in case I need a reminder. The command to run is: tsadmin.msc Or it can be added... » More
Quick reminder of steps to setup a Laravel project on Ubuntu/Linux Mint and similar. First install composer: Install PHP dependencies: Use composer to create your Laravel project: Install composer.json... » More
I had inadvertently set up slave replication using the wrong channel name - which is a minor issue except that it caused some issues with an already configured Nagios check. To 'change' the channel name I stopped the slave process, removed all the slave... » More
