Aug 31, 2012
Using Dell SUU on RHEL 64 Bit
Part of many systems admins jobs is to update firmware and drivers on the servers. This is needed to keep systems stable and avoid nasty crashes and OS incompatibilities. The best time is when you build the system and also when you can get the time when you can take the system offline to give it much needed patches. Dell provides a downloadable DVD ISO for their Server Update Utility (SUU), which runs on... read more
Aug 26, 2012
How To Update Asus EeePC 1001P Bios
Recently an issue occurred on a very trusty Asus EeePC 1001P Netbook in which a Bios upgrade was needed. Newer systems are usually not an issue to update as it is a download , double-click on the executable and away you go. This one was a bit different as the download file was a ROM binary and there was no double-click. Here’s the steps to update the bios. Obtain a USB stick, 1 GB is sufficient... read more
Aug 24, 2012
Introspect error The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided Running RHN_REGISTER
You would think something as simple as running rhn_register would just run and register for updates without any issues. There are times when this is not the case and today was one of them. The issue occurred when running rhn_register on RedHat EL 5.4 (Tikanga) servers when after selecting next on teh review screen I received the error. “Introspect error: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided... read more
Aug 22, 2012
How To Increase the Maximum Number of File Descriptors RHEL / CentOS
Recently ran into a issue where a program running on RHEL was using up all the available File Descriptors. First we need to find out what the maximum number of open file descriptors is set to. We accomplish this by running the command: # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 589420 The output tells us it is set to 589420. The vendor asked for this to be increased to 1639200. We can add change the value immediately by... read more
Aug 21, 2012
VirtualBox 4.1.20 Released
VirtualBox 4.1.20 Released !!! make sure to update your installation to get the latest bugfixes,! This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a crash under rare circumstances for VMs running without hardware virtualization VMM: fixed a code analysis bug for certain displacement instructions for VMs running without hardware virtualization VMM: fixed an... read more
