by Jesse Perry (JP) | Aug 20, 2013 | Helpful Command Lines
How to set XenServer VM to autostart I have a hard time finding this post on how to setup a VM to Autostart on XenServer 6.0 and 6.1. I included a link to the original post and the steps I used to reproduce below. If you find this, I hope it helps you. Where’s...
by Jesse Perry (JP) | Jun 12, 2013 | Helpful Command Lines
How to Change User Password at Command Prompt Changing user passwords is pretty common in Computer Management for small business networks. It is typically a click, click, click affair, with lots of waiting for dialog boxes to come up. I would rather jump to a command...
by Jesse Perry (JP) | Apr 10, 2013 | Helpful Command Lines
Find files with the Find utility in Linux Ok, this should be simple, every *nix guy should know this. I am embarassed, but I CONSTANTLY forget the syntax for the find command. So, here it is, with some examples. $ find / -name ‘test.txt’ / Start searching...
by Jesse Perry (JP) | Apr 8, 2013 | Helpful Command Lines
Here is how to Kill a process with tskill or taskkill. Got a program that is stuck, like Outlook or Excel, say’s it is running but it doesn’t show up in the Applications window of the Task Manager? There is likely a process running for it. Find the task in...
by Jesse Perry (JP) | Apr 8, 2013 | Helpful Command Lines
Ok, this is an easy one… find the local IP address of a linux machine. This works in osX and other Unix variants. ifconfig
by Jesse Perry (JP) | Apr 8, 2013 | Helpful Command Lines
Here is how to use the Net User command in Windows to Enable or disable users from the command line. As an example, let’s say I want to enable the Guest account, for some basic peer-to-peer sharing. I would run the following command. Net user Guest /active:yes...
