mkudlacek's questions

I have a USB device and I need to execute a "infinite" script when I plug in this device and pass the /dev/... path as an argument.

The real example is: The device is RFID reader (0403:6001), which works as tty device. I need to run a script, which reads data from /dev/ttyUSBx and via xdotool prints them into opened web browser. As there could be potentially more devices evaluated as /dev/ttyUSBx, I need to pass the correct one to the script.

The classic way seems to be by udev rule, but I read [1], that the "RUN" parameter is not for long time running scripts. Other than that, I cannot find env variable or %variable that would contain the "ttyUSBx".

Another way I found is by systemd, but the classification of device looks like /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2 which depends on the USB port...

I am running Debian 8 Jessie.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/udev.html

I have a Debian 8 with Samba 4 as a AD domain member. The DC is Windows Server 2008. The shares are able to handle Windows permissions - I use IDMAP backend = rid, since I cannot add uidNumber and gidNumber to AD account record.

I can display and set ACL permissions with getfacl and setfacl, but the R-W-X settings cannot set fine-grade Windows permissions (take ownership, read attributes, set permissions, full control...)

So, is there a possibility to manage (or at least show) advanced Windows permissions of shared file/folder from Linux?

The point is, I would like to make a script, which periodically checks all shared files, if they have the permissions I would like to have them. And alert, if something is wrong, so it would be some type of live documentation check of desired privileges.

I inherited non-activated Windows Server 2012 Standard. So I purchased retail version "OEM Win Svr Std 2012 R2 x64 CZ 1pk DVD 2CPU / 2VM" and tried to activate it with product key. With this key, I get an error "This key cannot be validated. Try a different one" (loosely translated, my system is Czech). And I am pretty sure, that I put in the right key. I cannot start validation over phone, command slui 4 gives me only activation by key. Direct phone calls to Czech Microsoft gets me nowhere.

At one occasion I got error "0x8007232b" which relates to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929826/en . As far as I understand, there could be broken KMS Client. I don't use activation via KMS Host in the infrastructure. Tried to google how to get rid of it, but didn't find out how. It isn't "Function", "Role" or software...

Thanks for any help,

Martin

PS: Not that it should matter, but this system is virtual machine in KVM

I manage VMware ESXi 4.0 server running mix of Windows virtual machines. I've installed VMware vSphere CLI in hope to pause/resume virtual machine and copy its image to NFS datastore. I've got CLI up and running, I can list datastores, registered machines, configuration and etc, but when i try to start machine with:

vmware-cmd --config /etc/vmware-vcli/esxi.conf /vmfs/volumes/_insane_uuid_/tester/tester.vmx start

it gives me this error:

Operation cannot be performed. 

SOAP Fault:
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Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
Fault detail: RestrictedVersionFault

From brief googling this looks like problem with unsufficient licence level. Current licence is:

ESXi 4 Single Server Licensed for 1 physical CPUs (1-6 cores per CPU)

And my question is: what licence should I purchase in order to make CLI work? There won't be any change in number of CPUs, memory size or number of physical servers whatsoever.

Thanks for answer in advance.
Martin