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HOWTO: the definitive guide to Debian Etch open-iscsi (step-by-step)

Posted by Vide on September 15, 2008

Ok, maybe this is a little bit arrogant title :) but since I’ve experienced more than a problem/issue when installing iSCSI initiator support in Debian 4.0 Etch, I think that this howto could help people setting up their first open-iscsi in Etch (in which open-iscsi is UTTERLY broken, let me say it loud).

First of all, install open-iscsi

aptitude install open-iscsi

and remove the broken init scripts (they are going to give you lots of headaches when rebooting, if you don’t do this.)

update-rc.d -f open-iscsi remove
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VMware strange error message

Posted by rga on October 23, 2007

Hello,

Since VMware is not FreeSoftware no one have to get source code and see why it shows this strange message, of course only for fun.

Using vmrun shell script to manage our virtual machines, someone can see something like this:

$ vmrun snapshot Snap1.vmx Snap2.vmx
all seems to work but …

Error: Command failed: The operation completed successfully.

Nice tool :)

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Happy Birthday

Posted by rga on October 1, 2007

Hello again,

Today is the birthday of the responsible of the site, SO

Happy birthday!!

tuxbirthday1.jpg

Have a nice day!

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echo “Hello, world!”

Posted by Vide on July 1, 2007

input/ouput error

I think this concept resume in a pretty way the life of a typical sysadmin: you are always working on things that don’t work, and your job is to understand why and fix them. But nobody is going to thank you for this: things are supposed to just work, so…

Anyway

Hello, world! and hello blogosphere too!

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