Today VMware crashed on me, and upon reboot VMware-tools wasn’t installed on the guest. Every time I would try to do the re-install I would get the following error:
“Could not find conponent on update server. Contact VMware support or your system administrator”
I found the solution on VMware’s community forums and wanted to put it here for anyone that was having the same issue.
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Do you want to have SSH and/or SFTP available on your Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, etc.) server and tired of seeing malicious IP’s from other countries trying to brute force into your server? I have an easy and quick solution for you. This is currently only written for US people, but if you read carefully you can easily apply this to your own country. This simple trick uses your hosts.deny and hosts.allow files to restrict what IP addresses can access your server via SSH. Read More
This script, run on your Active Directory controller, will give you an html display of all users in Active Directory based on group. This is a very handy script for me as I use it to run a weekly internal audit report for our operations management. I’m not sure of the exact source of this code. I know I didn’t write it from scratch, but I believe I piecemealed it together over time about a year or so ago. If I find the original author or if you are the original author please let me know and I’ll make sure to give full credit. Read More
In my recent experience with virtually hosted web servers, I ran into a problem where mingetty was taking a large amount of CPU usage. I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Thanks to this post, I have finally figured it out. Read More
