I was pulling my hair out the other day trying to connect to a VM in Parallels Desktop. It’s fairly straightforward, yet rather complex at the same time. Here’s how to do it step by step. In this example I’m running Parallels Desktop 8 under Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and my Guest OS CentOS … Read more
Did you know that you can run PHP directly from the command line? Here’s how: Running a command Let’s run a one-liner and see the output displayed in our console. We’ll use phpinfo() because we know it should generate a lot of text. We need to start our line with php, use the -r switch … Read more
I’ve just tried to update one of my CentOS 6.2 servers that was built from an older AMI, only to find that the yum update command stopped unexpectedly with several dependency errors. They all pointed to something called “qpid”, and I must admit that I’ve never heard of it – nor did I know that … Read more
Version 6.x of Apple’s AirPort Utility displays all your wireless client’s IP addresses, but it doesn’t show you wired devices. The old version 5.6 did, but without a hack it no longer runs on Mountain Lion. There is however a simple way to display all clients using the command line tool arp. Open up a … Read more
yum can help us here. This should do the trick: #yum list installed If you’re interested in a particular package, you can pipe a search string into grep and only list filtered results: #yum list installed | grep “yum” keyutils-libs.i686 1.4-4.el6 @anaconda-CentOS-201303020136.i386/6.4 yum.noarch 3.2.29-40.el6.centos yum-metadata-parser.i686 yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch The search string doesn’t even need to be in … Read more
Two commands come to the rescue: ip and ifconfig. Either does the trick: #ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:99:0D:D2:58 inet addr:87.106.181.234 Bcast:87.106.181.234 Mask:255.255.255.255 inet6 addr: fe80::219:99ff:fe0d:d258/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14022830 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1 TX packets:17605482 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6842851425 (6.3 GiB) TX bytes:22015650673 (20.5 … Read more
Once you’ve created an EBS Volume in the AWS web interface and attached it to an EC2 instance, how do you actually use it on your virtual server? Here’s how! The following commands assume you’re logged into your system as root. I’ve created a 13GB volume and attached it to my running instance. Before we … Read more
Need to find a file on your system? Look no further than the excellent find command line tool. Here’s how to use it: find / -name ‘yourfilename.extension’ This brings up a list of every file whose name matches “yourfilename.extention”. Wildcards are allowed, so you could list every .log file on the system like this: find … Read more
