Posts Tagged 'shell'

Mount ISO as cdrom in Linux

Posted on August 17 2009 Keep Reading ...

To mount an ISO:
mount -o loop /path_to_iso/filename.iso /mnt/cdrom
To unmount the ISO when done:
umount /mnt/cdrom
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Basic Networking Commands

Posted on February 9 2009 Keep Reading ...

 

 

ifconfig

Used to determine what IP address you have, the equivalent of the ipconfig command in Windows. You can use the command without parameters to view all interfaces, or you can be interface specific, e.g.[root@esx1host] # ifconfig vswif0vswif0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:49:96:03
          inet addr:192.168.1.7  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4867312 errors:0 dropped:0 [...]

VMware Command Line Tools

Posted on February 9 2009 Keep Reading ...

vmkfstools

Used to manipulate virtual disks at the service console command line. It is used most often for import and export operations, where a virtual disk is converted from monolithic format to sparse format (previously called COW format).There is a great switch with the command -X which can be used to extend the size of [...]

Linux: Common Commands

Posted on February 9 2009 Keep Reading ...

/etc/ssh/sshd_config
The configuration of SSH client is stored in the text file /etc/ssh/ssh_config
The configuration of the SSH server daemon is stored in the text file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. An important setting in this file is PermitRootLogin=No. This is the default setting in ESX 3.x and it is recommended that you keep the setting at “No”. This way you [...]