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PHP5 Interpreter Missing

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:07:17 +0000

Use following command in your shell:
#sudo apt-get install php5-cli

Get services to start up in Linux

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:14:57 +0000

Add Service:
# update-rc.d apache2 defaults

Remove Service:
# update-rc.d -f apache2 remove

More Infos you can get here:
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-manage-services-with-update-rc.d

See all Volume Shadow Copy Providers installed

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:53:21 +0000

Command Prompt Command:
> Vssadmin List Providers

In the registry you will find them here:
HK\LM\System\Currentcontrolset\services\VSS\Providers

I had some trouble with our Backup System today and noticed that that another VSS was installed. After removing the Acronis Registy entry it worked like a charm.

Switch on and Off Monitor from cmd

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:08:13 +0000

We have a monitor at our work which we use to monitor our company’s state. But how lazy I am I was looking for a quick solution to switch off and on this screen. So I don’t need to do this task anymore each morning;-) I did some research on the net but didn’t found a solution to do it with the Windows inbuilt functions. Then I discovered this great command prompt tool: Nircmd. It offers a lot of other functions. Just copy it into your Windows System 32 folder and you can simply run the command “nircmd monitor off” to switch off your screen. I used Windows Task Planer to run it each morning (switch on) and evening (switch off). Check out this great tool which offers heaps of other functions:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

sync time in debian with a ntp server

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:08:04 +0000

1. Install
apt-get install ntpdate

2. Create a new file in /etc/cron.hourly
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/ntpdate your_timeserver >> /var/log/ntpdate.log

3. Give the file run rights
chmod +x file_name

Start Windows Services Remote and change start up type

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:07:11 +0000

Here a couple of quick and dirty examples:
sc \\REMOTEMACHINE query
sc \\REMOTEMACHINE start SERVICE_NAME
sc \\REMOTEMACHINE config SERVICE_NAME start= auto

Install VMWare tools in debian

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:41:04 +0000

1. Install Kernel Heaeders

Get the Kernel version and remember it with:
uname-r
apt-get install linux-headers-[Kernel Version]

2. Install VMWare Tools

Choose “install and upgrade VMWTools in VMWare” in your VM menu
mount /dev/hda /media/cdrom
cd /media/cdrom/
cp VMWareTools[whateverversion]tar.gz /tmp/
cd /tmp
tar xvzf VMWareTools[whateverversion]tar.gz
umount /media/cdrom/
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/
make a symlink:
ln –s /usr/src/linux-headers-[Kernel Version] /usr/src/linux
apt-get install gcc-4.1
change using gcc version:
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1
I had make and killall missing on my installation so can you get it:
apt-get install psmisc make
./vmware-install.pl

3. Uninstall VMWare Tools
After a failed installation of VMWare Tools I got following message:
A previous installation of VMWare Software has been detected… You may want to re-install VMWare Tools.

The solution was to run the uninstaller first and run the VMWare setup again:
1. ./vmware-uninstall.pl

Find Unknown Device Driver

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:34:23 +0000

You know the problem when you go into your device manager and you find unknown devices with missing drivers. What to do in this case?

Go into your device manager:
Start->Control Panel->Device Manager->Double Click on the unknown device->Details->Hardware-IDs

Lookup the hardware ID’s in the net or on this webpage: www.pcidatabase.com. The first number stands for the vendor and the second is for the device. For example in this case VEN_10DE stands for NVIDIA Corporation and 042f for NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290.

dropbox with own encryption (Truecrypt)

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:52:33 +0000

Well I do love dropbox but I don’t like to put sensitive data on it because I simply don’t trust other companies taking care of my security. I use a open source program called truecrypt to encrypt my hard drives, usb sticks etc. and it’s doing a great job. After a little research in the Net I found out you can also use it with dropbox. You might think when you create an encrypted container that with each change in it it would transfer the whole file again. Luckily dropbox just transfers the changes instead of the whole file. But I red on somebodies blog that you need to make a small change in truecrypt.

Deactivate in Truecrypt->Settings->Preferences…->Preserve modification timestamp of file containers

How to query mx records in Windows

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:25:25 +0000

Open Command Console and type:
nslookup
set type=mx
google.com