Compile dmidecode on Cygwin

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Added: Mon, Jan 20th 2003 14:01 PDT (5 years, 4 months ago) Updated: Tue, Feb 27th 2007 07:13 PDT (1 year, 3 months ago)

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Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag, and a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability, depending on the manufacturer. This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports.

Directions to get this to compile under cygwin.

I had to run cygwin setup and select gcc ( I selected all of them ) and make, also I selected automake but I am not sure if that was necessary.

Then
make
Then I will take the EXE to another system along with Cygwin1.dll.

This resulted in an error, I think the answer is here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00458.html

with Windows 2003 only kernel process have access to physical memory.

But then read this
http://lists-archives.org/cygwin/34232-dev-mem-permission-denied.html

Will have to revisit another day to see if I can get this working for Windows 2003.


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More details:


Error Messages on Windows 2003 Server
# dmidecode 2.9
/dev/mem: Permission denied

Here are the files, cygwin is nto installed locally.
biosdecode.exe
cygwin1.dll
dmidecode.exe
ownership.exe
vpddecode.exe


cygwin1.dll version - 1005.25.0.0

Here is information from the workstation I used to build dmidecode.
$ cat /proc/version
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2007-12-14 19:21

VMWare ESX / Infrastructure Enabling Root SSH

Enable SSH access to VMware ESX server

To allow the root user to login to a VMware ESX Server over the network using SSH, do the following:

1. Go to the service console on the physical server & login
2. vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
3. Change the line that says PermitRootLogin from “no” to “yes”
4. Restart sshd with command /etc/init.d/sshd restart

Source:
http://www.kreslavsky.com/2007/12/enable-ssh-access-to-vmware-esx-server.html

Appendix O: Active Directory Delegation Wizard File

Appendix O: Active Directory Delegation Wizard File

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/1d05f294-bb1e-4a55-aec3-2ee80f0db2791033.mspx?mfr=true

Difference between Active mode and Passive Mode FTP

Here is a link which states it clearly.
Click Here

Network

Rate my network diagram -
Cool site which has several network diagrams so you can review what others are doing:
http://www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com/


Site which discusses Network Documentation and Network Mapping - free.
http://www.networkdocumentation.com/

Learning some HTML and ASP

I like some of the quick references and examples on this site.

http://www.w3schools.com/

Perl Script into EXE

App::Packer - is a Perl Module to help get your script into a free running program - no dependencies. Its worked with a ntp time check script I have. Now I have a script that will pull a list of the OUs in AD and create a batch file to dsacls is run for each OU.


This link has more details on running p2e.pl the script that runs to create the exe:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?displaytype=print;node_id=215299

Mysql Cheat Sheet

I was having some problems using the LOAD DATA INFILE.

This guy's cheatsheet helped me out.

http://www.nparikh.org/unix/mysql.php

Windows 2003 SP2 install with no backup

Just a reminder that this is the way to run a Windows 2003 SP2 install choosing not to backuup the files.

i386\update\update.exe /nobackup

Cheap diag tool

I like Visio, and I like DIA (GPL - I think ) - here is edraw.


http://www.edrawsoft.com/Network-Diagrams.php

Some Good Cheat Sheets

Some good cheat sheets from sloppycode.net

I like the programming cheat sheet here lets you see perl next to php, vbscript.
http://www.sloppycode.net/tools/language-reference.aspx

the unix one seems handy as well.
http://www.sloppycode.net/Tools/unix-cheat-sheet.aspx

Nortel VPN Device and Passive FTP problems

We have some site with problematic FTP trasnfers, found that Active FTP was working, Passive FTP was not working. Found IE and FileZilla both have ways to change default behavior. We needed to get FTP working.

Found a note on Nortel's site known issues with specific firmware and passive FTP.

Here is my test file, first line is active, second is passive - the second line was failing. The test downloads a 3 meg file from Microsoft.

I also found this guide:
Active FTP vs. Passive FTP, a Definitive Explanation

ftptesting.cmd
curl ftp://anonymous:wow@ftp.microsoft.com/PSS/Tools/NetMon/netmon2.zip > netmon2-norm.zip
curl --disable-epsv ftp://anonymous:wow@ftp.microsoft.com/PSS/Tools/NetMon/netmon2.zip > netmon2-disable.zip


After the firmware it worked as expected.

Reloading Laptop After some Problems

Step 1. Pull down corporate apps
Step 2. Install Office 2007 (team thing)

Installed 7.10 Ubuntu Desktop, tried to update the network with Wicd, had some failures will need to redo. The install was nice, I just told it the new size of the ntfs partition during the Ubuntu install.



Here is a program I love - Tea Timer
http://users.adelphia.net/~dceubank/

I am trying to add it to my GTD work.



Other apps
Putty
WinSCP
SongBird
Juice
Cygwin
Hotkeys ( trying to force myself to do this more )

resolv.conf and inetd and telnet and reverse dns

Interesting I recently had seen on a unix box after the resolv.conf was changed, telnet sessions were taking 20 seconds to initiate.

I told the unix guys to change the name servers for their machines as we were decommissioning a dns name server. After they made the change name resolution was working as expected, however there was a 20 second delay for telnet sessions and rlogon sessions. I was able to connect via ssh without a delay. I went to troubleshoot dns with nslookup and found the expected results without delay.

My first question was how do you get unix to re-read the manually edited resolv.conf - answer is the file is read on each dns request - most unix systems I have read about linux, freebsd, and hpux all are configured like this. The idea is the operating file system cache will have the file in memory and the file is quite small. So it is true that it is read on each request.

So telnet was configured to be called from inetd, the answer for this was to restart the inet daemon. I should state rather then a restart or reload, one of the admins had found many suggested simple killing and restarting the inetd deamon.

Basic wireless from Microsoft @ Home

Ubuntu Links

Ubuntu Forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/

Ubuntu Guide
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty

Ubuntu Download
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

ajaxWindows

I just signed up for this website, ajaxWindows another webos - seems pretty impressive so far. I just saw the slashdot posting on it.

the cons - mainly security, may not be available from "every" machine I touch.
the pros - a quick way to be able to browse the web and save notes on most machines I touch.

Here is the YouTube video demo of the site/service

they also recommend and let you open a gmail account for online storage, cool.

Mark

Getting Started with DD-WRT

A friend asked me how about getting started with DD-WRT, so here is the list:

Step 1: See if your device is supported
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

Step 2: Read up
FAQ
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Index:FAQ
Installation
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation

Here is a link to the forums
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/

Step 3: Download
DD-WRT
Download
http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads.php

Step 4:
Look at some Tutorials
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Tutorials

Step 5:
Why he was interested in dd-wrt is the ability to use ssh tunnels with Putty, here are the links for that.

Putty
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/


Tunneling VNC over SSH with PuTTY
http://martybugs.net/smoothwall/puttyvnc.cgi

Making ScITE even better - Part 1

Things I want in my ScITE
svn?
code complete
code snippents

http://caladbolg.net/scite_snippets.php

CentOS5 running VMware Server

this page was helpful -
http://fosswire.com/2007/04/21/installing-vmware-server-on-centos-5/

I didn't have to load the any-any vmware patch??


[root@BOX ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen