I’ve set up a few of these servers now, but I’ve found a problem (which is a known problem). The packages for the freeNX server under Redhat are 1.5, whereas those under Ubuntu/Debian are 1.4, this is fine except that you can connect to the 1.5 server from the new 2.x client, but not [...]

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hmmm, beginning to think that the biggest problem that I’ve had with vmware is that I couldn’t find a logo for the post … spent a good 5 minutes looking for one!
I’ve been asked at work to setup a number of new vmware machines on a virtualised server in a completely different location (not easily [...]

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This is pretty specific to my work, but I found a few nice things out. In order to search for a person in the LDAP directory, do a:
[root@cwmedia08 openldap]# ldapsearch -D ‘cn=manager’ -W -x -b "o=<domainname>" "(login=name*)"
and this should return the ldap record for the person specified. The userPassword looks something like:
userPassword:: [...]

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I was after a quick way to find all of the files modified after a certain time, I found the solution in a number of places, but http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginners-linux-guide/find.php was the first place that I stumbled on. There is a trick to finding all of the files modified before a certain time:
abowden@cw0001:~$ touch -d "01 [...]

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