Author name: Prashant Kumar

Recreating missing virtual disk (VMDK) Descriptor File Vmware

Recreating missing virtual disk (VMDK) Descriptor File Problem- You just noticed that virtual machine’s VMDK files are missing and lost somehow. The reason, not able to start VM and when you try to add existing HDD – existing VMDK and -flat. VMDK files are not available to attach with Virtual Machine too. Solution – We […]

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passwd: Authentication token manipulation error | RHEL 6

authentication token manipulation error is common error we use to get frequently. The problem described as below- Getting passwd: Authentication token manipulation error on  RHEL6 Machine. [root@ip-linuxbox~]# passwd user1Changing password for user user1.New password:Retype new password:passwd: Authentication token manipulation error [root@ip-linuxbox~]# passwd -u user1 [Tried to unlock the account password.] Unlocking password for user user1.passwd:

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File System shows 100% occupied but du tells different and still has Unused Spaces.

We have faced an issue as below mentioned – found /oracle mount-point showing 100% as Used. But getting different size values for folders under /oracle mount-point, when we executed du -gs . bash-4.4# df -gFilesystem GB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on/dev/hd4 4.00 1.39 66% 20686 6% //dev/hd2 4.00 1.02 75% 45679 16% /usr/dev/hd9var

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What process is listening on a certain port on Solaris? / How to find out which process listens on certain port on Solaris?

Scenario: I’m looking for PID for which PORT 2817 is using here in Solaris 11. -bash-3.2# netstat -an | grep 2817 *.2817 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN 10.0.50.81.2817 10.0.50.81.37374 49152 0 49152 0 CLOSE_WAIT 10.0.50.81.2817 10.0.50.81.35510 49152 0 49152 0 CLOSE_WAIT 10.0.50.81.2817 10.0.50.81.34478 49152 0 49152 0 CLOSE_WAIT Here is a script, I found

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AIX: rootvg/disk mirroring

bash-4.2# bootinfo -s hdisk0 140013 bash-4.2# bootinfo -s hdisk1 140013 bash-4.2# bootinfo -s hdisk2 140013 bash-4.2# lspv hdisk0 002b012f397c20ce None hdisk1 002afe4f2b4c3fdb rootvg active hdisk2 002b016f09313544 ppmvg active bash-4.2# bash-4.2# lsvg -p rootvg rootvg: PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION hdisk1 active 546 187 10..00..00..85..92 bash-4.2# extendvg rootvg hdisk0 0516-1398 extendvg: The

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