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07 Oct 2018

Can't hot-add LUN0 from EMC Unity

When mapping storage through to a host, be careful of conflicts from the existing dummy LUN ID 0. When presenting the first LUN to a Linux host from a new controller (in preparation for migrating from an existing array), LUN ID 0 was automatically assigned. It turns out, the array…

07 Oct 2018 Read More
  • storage
  • EMC
  • linux

07 Jan 2018

Start sshd for Linux anaconda installer

Add inst.sshd to the kernel args to run the SSH Daemon during the installer. This makes debugging, log collection etc during a linux install much easier. User is 'root', by default there is no password. You can then use the sshpw kickstart option to set a password.…

07 Jan 2018 Read More
  • linux

07 Jan 2018

Goss default timeout (10 seconds)

Problem This command takes 12 seconds to run on this system (normally it is quicker) [root@server ~]# time /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/racadm jobqueue view | tail [Job ID=JID_060702358956] Job Name=Configure: Import system configuration XML file Status=Completed with Errors Start Time=[Not Applicable] Expiration Time=[Not Applicable]…

07 Jan 2018 Read More
  • goss
  • linux

07 Jan 2018

Python PDB

An interactive debugger which allows you to interact via the python shell at specific places within your code. The two important parts are import pdb --> Use the pdb library pdb.set_trace() --> Use this in each part of the code where you want to invoke the…

07 Jan 2018 Read More
  • Python

07 Jan 2018

VIM Block Edits

Select the block Ctrl-V for Visual Block mode This will allow you to work with columns and rows. For example, you can insert new characters to the beginning of a set of new lines (think adding indentation, comment # symbols, etc) } for paragraph (or G to end of file, etc) Insert…

07 Jan 2018 Read More
  • vim
  • linux

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