This activity is far from straight forward. There’s lots of information about how to do this through vCenter but the information becomes very unclear when it comes to the free version of VMware ESXi. First, there is an import option from the web interface under “Manage” and “Security & Users”. Read more…
This is a simple problem in the end that cost me serious troubleshooting time. Hopefully you found this article and it can save you some of what I lost. You may encounter a problem when running a script on the Linux CLI that results in error: bad substitution and a Read more…
So, you decided you want to try to import logs manually into some version of an ELK stack, or maybe just directly into Elasticsearch. I hope it’s going better for you than it has for me. Though, I guess it’s probably not since you’ve found your way here. When importing Read more…
Dumpster fire fails to adequately sum up the mess of this udev/systemd bug in the Debian package tree. This article provides a possible solution to a non-booting system post system upgrade.
If you’re arriving at this post, clearly, things are not going well. You’ve booted up your system and wound up with some odd LVM errors (if you’ve determined that they are LVM I suppose). There’s very little definitive information out there on this problem as far as I can tell Read more…
For those of us who still work through some of these technical issues on occasion, I ran into a rather tricky one over the course of the past few months related to updating. This was a problem that had me stuck for a few days and happened when I was Read more…
When you run a removal command in Linux with the recursive and force options enabled (rm -rf *), you don't expect to get back a failure message. After all, YOU FORCED IT! However, it just so happens that even with force, you can encounter a situation where the list of Read more…