Oct 20, 2012
Plex Media Server Startup soci_error
A good friend of mine recently ran into an issue where Plex Media Server running on Fedora would not start up. After multiple times trying to start\stop it, deleted pid files, removing subsys lock files, discovered that /var was full, so it couldn’t write something during startup which was causing it not to start. Receiving an error similar to this: Starting PlexMediaServer: terminate called after... read more
Oct 17, 2012
How To Setup and Use NFS on RHEL 5/6
I know this is probably old hat for a many out there but there are many newbies out there and even a few crusty admins that need to know, or be reminded how to setup NFS (Network File Sharing) to export and share files / directories on Linux systems. There are several services that need to be running for NFS to work properly. They are portmap, nfs and nfslock. Enable the services and start them using... read more
Oct 16, 2012
How To Play Blu-Ray on Fedora 17
Always wanting to be able to do the same thing on Linux that I do on Windows I found myself taking the challenge of playing Blu-Ray on Linux. There are several posts on the net that explain how to achieve this on Ubuntu but not any on Fedora. One thing that was common was the mention of the VideoLan project and VLC which had created the libaacs and libbluray libraries needed for BluRay playback. All that... read more
Oct 11, 2012
How to Use Putty and SCP from Windows to Linux Using Keys
It’s time for another messing of the Linux and Windows world’s. Recently had the task of allowing Windows servers to scp (secure copy) files to a Linux Apache server and automate it. With the help of Putty and private / public keys this is an easy task. Install PuTTy on the Window server. Download it from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html . Download the Windows... read more
Oct 10, 2012
How to Copy Files between Windows Systems with PowerShell Copy-Item
As a longtime Linux user I have always enjoyed the ease of being able to copy files between systems with scp, ssh and other means. With Windows systems this has been hit or miss in corporate environments with firewalls and block on the un-secure port 445 used by SMB. But with PowerShell there is another way for Windows administrators to enjoy what Linux / Unix admins have enjoyed for years. The copy-item... read more
