Thoughts from the abyss

One annoying feature of VMware Infrastructure Client 2.5, used for connecting to ESX and ESXi hosts, is the fact that it likes to remember any IP addresses and names of connections in the login screen. While I appreciate its helpfulness, when you have a dozen machines used for testing no longer being accessed, I got tired of looking at them in the drop-down menu. To delete any of the old connections, open up regedit.

Start -> Run -> regedit

CTRL+F or Edit -> Find

Type in “RecentConnections” and your VMware recent connections list should pop up somewhere under HKU registry. Just open this up and delete any hosts you don’t want to see anymore.

I ran across www.childsplaycharity.org today, which I urge you to visit. You can either donate money to them, or better yet, you can pick items off of listed Childs Play Hospital’s Amazon’s Gift Lists, and send items directly to a childrens hospital of your choosing. Very cool. A copy of Hotel for Dogs is on it’s way to the childrens hospital most nearest me right now.

# lvextend -L+5G /dev/vg0/whatever
  Extending logical volume whatever to 45.00 GB
  Logical volume whatever successfully resized

# cryptsetup resize /dev/mapper/whatever

# resize2fs /dev/mapper/whatever
resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem at /dev/mapper/whatever is mounted on /whatever; on-line resizing required
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/mapper/whatever to 11796351 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/mapper/whatever is now 11796351 blocks long.

Voila! Your encrypted partition has been resized.

Very long time, no post. I had a fire at my house, well not mine the neighbor’s fire damaged mine but anyways, at the beginning of the year, so a lot of things in life got put on hold as I dealt with that. That being said, some recent discussions about the CentOS wiki came up again on the documentation mailing list. There’s a big attitude about posting material on their wiki these days from a few, so I decided to not participate there any longer. I removed my name from all the pages I had created and worked on there, but left the content.

If you’re visiting there and find stale information, that’s the reason why. I’ll only be maintaining documentation here at this site now. It’s sad, and I hope attitudes start to change in the future of CentOS. It seems they are driving more and more people away. Wikis are about sharing, but there is so much control and criticism at the CentOS wiki it’s hard to share these days without being discouraged.

I recently switched from using rsnapshot to trying out BackupPC as a backup utility. I like it well enough to start using it at my employer as well, so I figured I’d write a guide up on how to install it and use it on CentOS, since the RPMs are available from their testing repository.

The guide concentrates on using rsync as the primary backup medium, and also includes a section on using AutoMySQLBackup to dump MySQL backups. As always, I welcome all comments and criticism. Enjoy.