Archive for March 2011

Extending Xen VM size

Draft of notes so I don’t loose the method. On CentOS 5.0 from 2005. Xen vm images in /xenvms Task: extend the databases vm from 5 G to 56 GB. This wasn’t hard once I learned how to do it.  However, in this case, there were only two partitions on the device: p1: root and […]

Custom compiled samba drove me nuts.

A long time ago, someone compiled from source and then installed samba 3.0.7 in /opt/csw on a Solaris 8 machine we have.  I surmize that the person ran ./configure with “–prefix=/opt/csw” Today we wanted to do “net ads join” and couldn’t. We got /etc/krb5/krb5.conf right, we know it because kinit would work. But the /opt/csw/bin/net […]