Linux Tutorial

VirtualBox Auto Start VM Centos Fedora RedHat

Fabio Milano — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:45:33 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I get my VirtualBox Guest VM’s to start and stop when the host system reboots, shutdown, or starts. Solution / Answer: Create an init.d script so that VirtualBox Guest VM are controlled as a system service. Install...

Fedora 11 external network and internal network

Fabio Milano — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:05:19 +0000

Scenario / Question: I have a computer connected to external network with one network card and connected to internal network with another network card. I want to have all external traffic use one nic and all internal traffic use another...

VirtualBox Modify VM Settings

Fabio Milano — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:16:00 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I modify the parameters of my VM in VirtualBox from the command line Solution / Answer: Use the tool VBoxManage Install VirtualBox “Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless” Create a VirtualBox VM...

VirtualBox Controlling Headless VM

Fabio Milano — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:30:12 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I control my VirtualBox VM’s from the command line Solution / Answer: Use the tool VBoxManage Install VirtualBox “Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless” Create a VirtualBox VM...

VirtualBox Headless VM

Fabio Milano — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:46:18 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I control VirtualBox from the linux command line CLI Solution / Answer: Use the included tools VBoxManage and VBoxHeadless First Install VirtualBox from this post: “Install VirtualBox without GUI or...

Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless

Fabio Milano — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:41:16 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I install VirtualBox on a linux server that does not have a GUI installed or Xorg. Solution / Answer: VirtualBox can be installed on a headless server, and can be controlled with VBoxManage and VBoxHeadless from the...

Lighttpd and PHP

Fabio Milano — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:58:05 +0000

How do I get Lighttpd to work with PHP Instal Lighttpd web server Follow the following tutorial: “Lighttpd and Centos 5” Add PHP support to Lighttpd web server Install lighttpd-fastcgi and php-cli # yum install lighttpd-fastcgi...

Lighttpd and Centos 5

Fabio Milano — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:24:07 +0000

What is Lighttpd “Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility — all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With...

Nagios Notifications Error

Fabio Milano — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:28:01 +0000

Scenario / Problem: Nagios is not sending notifications via email. In the logs: cat /var/log/messages |grep notification nagios nagios: Warning: Contact ‘nagiosadmin’ service notification command ‘/usr/bin/printf...

Fedora 11 nvidia segmentation fault

Fabio Milano — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:44:09 +0000

Scenario / Question: On boot I get the following error /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 513: 1345 aborted “$@” FAILED when nvidia driver loads /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 513: 1345 aborted “$@” FAILED OR # nvidia-config-display Segmentation...