Archive for March, 2007
LCOD – 3.19.07 – finding shared folders in vmware
Posted by Jon Zobrist in Linux, Linux Command of the Day on March 19, 2007
Not sure where to find files in your Linux vmware host when you’ve shared them as a vmware shared folder?
“In a Linux virtual machine, shared folders appear under /mnt/hgfs. So the shared folder in this example would appear as /mnt/hgfs/Test files.”
So if you share it as drive I it will show up as /mnt/hgfs/drive I
Which you would need to access with a \ to escape out that space in the path…
cd /mnt/hgfs/drive\ I
I finally found this info here, after searching all over…
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/running_sharefold_ws.html
“In a Linux virtual machine, shared folders appear under /mnt/hgfs. So the shared folder in this example would appear as /mnt/hgfs/Test files.”
So if you share it as drive I it will show up as /mnt/hgfs/drive I
Which you would need to access with a \ to escape out that space in the path…
cd /mnt/hgfs/drive\ I
I finally found this info here, after searching all over…
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/running_sharefold_ws.html
LCOD – 3.12.07 – Speeding up your DNS queries
Posted by Jon Zobrist in Linux, Linux Command of the Day on March 12, 2007
I did some testing and OpenDNS is fast.
To change to use OpenDNS instead of your own, or worse! your ISP’s crappy, poorly maintained dns server, you can follow the instructions here.
http://opendns.com/start/
The basic info is to put in these 2 IP’s as your dns servers
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
On Linux/*BSD you’d put them in your /etc/resolv.conf file like this
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
If you’d like to double whammy your performance run a local cache, I use DJB’s djbdns dnscache in forwarding only mode, as described here.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache-x-home.html
With the above IP’s in the @ file.
Installing DJB’s stuff is cake, you can pretty much cut & paste his instructions found here
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html
Of course you’ll need Daemontools, and ucspi, install instructions (cut & pasteable) here
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/install.html
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/install.html
If you get compilation errors cuz DJB hasn’t fixed a bug in his code and some systems (lots of recent Linux systems), run these commands.
(run after you’ve extracted the archive, and cd’d into it’s directory, and run for EACH install.) You may get a no such file for the src one on some, but he mixes software locations, so just run em both.
perl -pi -e ‘s/extern int errno\;/\#include <errno.h>/’ *
perl -pi -e ‘s/extern int errno\;/\#include <errno.h>/’ src/*
Enjoy!
To change to use OpenDNS instead of your own, or worse! your ISP’s crappy, poorly maintained dns server, you can follow the instructions here.
http://opendns.com/start/
The basic info is to put in these 2 IP’s as your dns servers
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
On Linux/*BSD you’d put them in your /etc/resolv.conf file like this
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
If you’d like to double whammy your performance run a local cache, I use DJB’s djbdns dnscache in forwarding only mode, as described here.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache-x-home.html
With the above IP’s in the @ file.
Installing DJB’s stuff is cake, you can pretty much cut & paste his instructions found here
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/install.html
Of course you’ll need Daemontools, and ucspi, install instructions (cut & pasteable) here
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/install.html
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/install.html
If you get compilation errors cuz DJB hasn’t fixed a bug in his code and some systems (lots of recent Linux systems), run these commands.
(run after you’ve extracted the archive, and cd’d into it’s directory, and run for EACH install.) You may get a no such file for the src one on some, but he mixes software locations, so just run em both.
perl -pi -e ‘s/extern int errno\;/\#include <errno.h>/’ *
perl -pi -e ‘s/extern int errno\;/\#include <errno.h>/’ src/*
Enjoy!
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