'sysadmin' Category

• The ZoomGo script, quickly move anywhere you want to be

  February 29, 2008

  One of the most important traits of being a SysAdmin is laziness (well, not really laziness, but recognizing repetitive action and taking steps to automate it). In the effort to combat repetitive changing directories, I have written a tiny (< 100 lines) Ruby script to handle “zooming” to a particular directory. Firstly, download the script […]

  posted in ruby, script, sysadmin, zoomgo, zsh by Lee

• How to convert a non-SMP RedHat VM into a SMP RedHat VM

  January 28, 2008

  Today I got an interesting request, a user needed to change his 64 bit non-SMP VM image (running RedHat 4.0) to a SMP machine, problem is, I don’t really want to have to go through reconfiguring the kernel and rebuilding it, so here’s the easy way to do it (it’s pretty simple): Power the image […]

  posted in kernel, redhat, smp, sysadmin, vm, vmware by Lee