December 2011 – geekmungus

Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 – Server Recovery

November 5, 2022December 15, 2011 by Tristan Self

After a power cut one of our Windows 2008 R2 VMs was dead, even though it was cleanly shutdown by the UPS something must have happened and it would not boot. When booting the VM it would just boot straight into the Windows Recovery tool, this was not good news. Running any commands against the … Read more

Using Tail to watch a log file

November 5, 2022December 13, 2011 by Tristan Self

If you ever need to watch a log file to see if something goes into it, here is a cheeky command to do that. The -f says to watch for updates, the -n 500 shows how many lines to bring back.