Short version…Note that this does not integrate with PAM and you’ll need to enter your password twice, once on boot , once on login. Make sure you use your login password for the encryption. Long version with more details… I found a few articles on this, but I came with […]
There are several VSCode SFTP or SSH extensions. I’ve tried a few. One I like is SSH FS ( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Kelvin.vscode-sshfs ). This one has some handy features, remote terminal quick access and remote folder explorer. I can’t, however, see how to use with local file folders that sync, in part […]
I run into this once in a great while, but can never remember. We have large data imports that have a tab out of place or invalid data in output. Thankfully our importer shows the line number. When you need to find line 39,000-something, its much easier to ask for […]
I don’t like Network Manager. I know I probably just need to learn it, but why? It seems to half use config files. And I don’t want it automatic! Sure, maybe on desktops, I suppose Network Manager is actually easy and works fine. But it always gets in my way […]
The recent announcements about CentOS have left a lot of us frustrated to say the least. I’m ok with it actually. I don’t blame them either. On the other hand, I’m not going to stick with a now rolling release and beta version of RHEL. I moved away from Ubuntu […]
Wow, this was so annoying to solve, yet simple. I can’t believe how many results in searching brought up overly complicated and incomplete answers that didn’t work. People added 10 or more log files types and some requiring launching Bind with a start up argument. What???!!!! Come on! I just […]
Some utilities are not working with the default OpenSSH “ssh-keygen” utility because they are not in RSA format as in the past. I noticed on some new systems (CentOS 8, in my case) the file started with this: —–BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY—– WARNING: The command below will convert the key […]
Annoying!! Three times in the last couple weeks I’m running into Windows 7 error on a system image backup. Also Windows 10 after an in place upgrade. In explorer go to: %windir%\system32\tasks\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsBackup Delete any tasks (there were 2 for me): AutomaticBackup Windows Backup Monitor Then, and nobody out there seems […]
We’re finally working on moving to newer versions of Zend Framework, and yes, we are way way way behind on this. (But hey, it works, and we can’t keep up with all the other system updating way too fast anymore!). Once we started updating PHP to 7.2 we ran into […]
I’ve had a hard time finding any guides on this. Always they suggest using dd to copy disk to virtual image file. Which works fine I’m sure, but I wondered why not just use qemu-img convert command directly. Why the two step conversion? So I did run into a post […]
I was not able to get the touchpad working using any of the typical solutions. What I found was disabling i2c_hid fixed the issue, but doing the actual disabling didn’t work. Adding an option in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf did not work. The real trick for this system was to add a kernel […]
(Wow, 1 year to the day from last post. How funny. Been too busy this last year to write up anything!) These tips are only based on issues I’ve run into on my development server. Â Currently we have a MySQL 5.5.x Ubuntu standard package running in production on Ubuntu 12.04. […]
The below info is only super quick notes during a clone I ran recently, this is not a complete HOW-TO!! My preference is to use LVM snapshot backups using fsarchiver. I typically have a layout like so: /dev/md0 – /boot /dev/md1 – LVM PV LVM: /dev/vg1/root – root /dev/vg1/home /dev/vg1/tmp […]
I haven’t tested mounting just the vmdk image, wasn’t sure if that would work, so I just ran the conversion first to raw img file. I don’t really need to regularly, but I wanted to convert an old vmdk virtual disk to a ZFS file system with NTFS on it […]
This was a tough one to figure out, yet, simple to do once I did it right. I am trying to setup a lab network to do some testing with recovery and migration with older Exchange and Windows servers before we do upgrades to 2012 R2 servers. I am also […]
Well, at least I think I solved this… Â there may be a better way, but on my system this worked. I am running PCBSD 9.1 still, just an FYI. Checkout the original CrashPlan installation post here: How to install Crashplan on FreeBSD Ok, so here’s the main problem: CrashPlan installed […]
A user at one of my clients ran into this today. He couldn’t open any images that were attached to Outlook. (Outlook 2003) Â I first just cleared out any temp files in c:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Temp folder and reset it to NOT be read only. Also reset all perms in that folder and […]
Ok, this took some time to figure out. Â A good example where I don’t use these features, so didn’t know how to do it. The problem: Google Apps “Exchange” account on iPad doesn’t work well with multiple calendars or shared calendars. (I wasn’t aware of that) Â Gmail account setup does […]
I am sure people are finding the correct way to handle this, but I keep ending up at older ZF2 how-to sites on Google searches that have incorrect ways to solve this, when there is more current and better information available now to change a layout template at the module […]
I don’t know how users have been managing to get into a bind with this, but twice in the last couple weeks I’ve been called by people with no internet access, yet they still have server file shares working. Â Everything seems fine in their adapter settings for IP and browser […]
