Free Geeko Images from Novell

On the Coolsoluiton site from Novell, there is a post with free Geeko desktop background! Cool!

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/5895/show-your-pride-cool-suse-linux-geeko-images-you

Monitor TCP traffic between Server and Workstation

Sometime you have the need to see whats happening between the server and a workstation.
You can use the utility tcpdump to capture the tcp data between the server and workstation and analyze this data with Wireshark (a tool that comes with linux).

This is the syntax: tcpdump src workstationip or dst workstationip -i eth0 -s 1500 -w connection.pcap

Start this, do your stuf, end tcpdump with CTRL-C. Dan you can read the connection.pcap file with wireshark.

How to update to SLES/SLED 10 SP1 AND SP2

Novell released a interesting TID how you easily can update to SP1 or SP2 for SLES/SLED 10.

But don’t update OES2 to SLES10 SP2 at this moment!!!!! You have to wait for SP1 for OES2.

The link for SP1 is this.

And for SP2 is this

Vacation

For the next 2 weeks I will be on holiday. So I won’t be able to update my blog.

So for all you people who have to work…. Sorry!

See you in two weeks!!!

License problem with Vmware 3.5 U2

Many have reported it, but there is a bug in U2 for vmware 3.5. If you upload a license, something wrong and you wil get the following error:

This product has expired. Be sure that your host machine’s date and time are set correctly.
There is a more recent version available at the VMware web site: http://www.vmware.com/info?id=4.
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Module License Power on failed

Duncan from www.yellow-bricks.com pointed out a solution on VMTN forum:

Find the host where a VM is located
run ‘ vmware-cmd -l ‘ to list the vms.
issue the commands:
service ntpd stop
date -s 08/01/2008
vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/vm path/vmname.vmx start
service ntpd start

But be carefull with this workaround, your vm’s will also get back in time.

Hope Vmware will release a patch soon.

Update 2008-08-13:
Apparently is was a big issue because Vmware has released a patch. You can find it at:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006721