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VMWare 2.0.x and CentOS 5.4 glibc crashes and instabilities – a workaround solution

By Eric Thern On March 5, 2010 · 1 Comment

If you’re running VMWare Server 2.0.x on CentOS 5.4, you’ll have noticed that you (most likely) suffer random reboots and other instabilities on the guest operating systems – this is due to a glibc error in vmware’s libraries, and has yet to be fixed by vmware (thanks a lot).  The real issue is CentOS/Redhat has [...]

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Yum update check script – runs via crontab and emails when new updates are available

By Eric Thern On February 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick script that will check yum updates and email you when there are new updates available.

Split into two sections, one script is for all package updates, and the other script is for letting us know if we need to reboot when a new kernel package has been installed.

Script to check for [...]

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OpenVZ cache update script

By Eric Thern On November 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Script to update OpenVZ vz cache for any template.

Useful to upgrade to newest security releases.

#!/bin/bash
#
# updates cache of VZ
#
#

#
# Set These (or pass from command line as below)
#
#TEMPLATE=centos-5-i386-afull
VZID=5999
#
# use this from command [...]

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