Using “screen” on Linux to perform your important work? Way to go, SysAdmin 🙂 Then you might at some point encountered the following behavior – while attempting to resume a session using “screen -r”, the following message occurred : There is a screen on: 1610.pts-0.host (25/08/18 08:25:36 PM) (Attached) There is no screen to be… Read More »
Similar as what you can do on linux with the Message Of The Day (MOTD), there is a way to display a message to users when they login to their session. Microsoft refer to this as a “legal notice” and can be achieved through the registry. 1. Open the Windows Registry Editor with elevated privileges… Read More »
The easiest way to get hardware serial and related information is using “dmidecode“. The command below should give you exactly what you need : dmidecode -s system-serial-number The command above does not usually work with “clone” computers/servers. Alternatively, you may use the command below, which will output all parts serial number availables : dmidecode |… Read More »
Here is a simple PowerShell command that will output the FC host adapter interface WWNs. Get-WmiObject -class MSFC_FCAdapterHBAAttributes -namespace “root\WMI” | ForEach-Object {(($_.NodeWWN) | ForEach-Object {“{0:x}” -f $_}) -join “:”} If your interface have two ports, both will be output in order. This command have been successfully tested with QLogic adapters on Windows 2012 and… Read More »
Here is some useful commands to list the members of a group in Active Directory using PowerShell. Get members of a group : Get-ADGroupMember -Identity “Groupe Name” Get members of a group, recursively (to list all members of sub-groups members of that group) : Get-ADGroupMember -Identity “Group Name” -Recursive NOTE : Replace “Group Name” (keeping… Read More »
You are probably used to all these “get my IP” or “find my IP” kind of site, which show your external / Internet IP on a Web page. However you might be facing some challenge if you are on a CLI only kind of machine. Fortunately there is a few ways to find your public… Read More »
Getting this error from the R1Soft repo lately trying to run a “apt-get update” on Debian Linux? Ign http://repo.r1soft.com stable Release W: GPG error: http://repo.r1soft.com stable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 39A4965166BD1D82 Simply do the following to import the new key and get rid of… Read More »
I had this strange issue on Windows 8/10 where changes such as file/folder renaming or deletion not appearing after a modification. A manual “Refresh” from the contextual menu (right click + Refresh) was required to show the last modification. It seem that some Windows core components were corrupted and needed to be repaired/restored. First of… Read More »
Having the following error trying to install a unsigned package from Yum repository on CentOS/RHEL? Unless you get an officially signed package(s), you will need to override/accept the installation of unsigned package (if you trust the source/issuer, of course). If installing a locally located rpm file(s), you may use the command “rpm -ivh package-name.rpm“. If… Read More »
Running into a endless loop of “Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed” issue while searching within a folder in Outlook and missing elements in the results? This is an occasional behavior that I have particularly noticed with Windows 7 and Office 2010, but not limited to this software version combination.… Read More »