Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10

If you’re thinking about virtualizing your IT environment but you don’t necessarily have a lot of budget/money to do it with, here are a few tips that may help you on your way.

Most of us already know about VMware’s offering of VMware Server for free. This, coupled with some great open-sourced operating systems can make for some pretty efficient hypervisors. Continue reading » Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.10

Installing webmin on Ubuntu 7.10

Recently, I’ve discovered a very neat tool for administering some of my linux servers. It is called webmin, and it may be one of the more complete web based system administration tools I have seen for linux. Continue reading » Installing webmin on Ubuntu 7.10

The best things in life are free

Ever had one of those weird moments when you check out what’s stuck in your wallet and compare it with that of your buddies? I’m not talking about how much money you have, but all of the other things – receipts, drivers license, club cards, gym memberships, packs of sugar, …? (Think George in that old episode of Seinfeld)

Well, this post is all about what’s stuck in your development environment. Perhaps one of the biggest lessons I have learned over the past few years is that some of the best development and I.T. tools out there don’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There was once upon a time when we subscribed to a different model: the pay-as-you-go model, where every time we ran into a problem, we’d call up our favourite vendor and “discover” what next big purchase we would need to make to solve the problem. Continue reading » The best things in life are free

How To See the Members of a Group in Linux

As far as I know, there is no standard Linux command to find out the users that are members of a given group. Intuitively, you would think there would be a command like members that takes the group name as a parameter. Unfortunately, it seems that no such command exists. In lieu of this command, you can simply grep the file /etc/group like this:

grep "^thegroupname:" /etc/group

Obviously, you need to replace thegroupname with the group you are searching for. The character ‘^’ means “beginning of line”. The character ‘:’ is the field separator between the group name and the group password in the group file.

If this tip helped you, please leave me a comment or send me an email!

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