I have just moved my site over to it’s new home. This should allow me to add more useful services and gets rid of the old clunky site. Hopefully, it will let me post more frequently, bringing you more useful tips and real-world hands-on advice.
Here’s an old trick which works great on ESX servers (thanks to this article on Linux Journal for reminding me). It turns your prompt different colours to highlight when you are logged in as root. To make the prompt red when you’re running as root add this to /root/.bashrc: PS1='[e[31m]u@h:w#[e[m] ‘ To make the prompt […]
Here is version 1.1 in all its shining glory. I’ve made several corrections (thanks everyone), added a few extra snippets and dusted it with a sprinkling of handy tips and tricks. The biggest change is a small 3i section. I have been wanting to do this for a while, but I haven’t had a chance […]
I wanted to blog here about a silly mistake I made yesterday. I need to expand a VM’s disk and was using the ol’ vmkfstools -X. However, I obviously do this all too flippantly and forgot to check if there was any snapshots. oops. That sunken feeling. I corrupted the vmdk and the snapshot vmsd […]