Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] VMware scripts?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Bruce Smith <bw...@re...>:

>>> I have the latest DL 1.3.6 running in VMware ESX 3i server with the
>>> VMware tools running.
>>>
>>> I changed the settings on the VM so the reset button and the power
>>> button to reboot/shutdown the server instead of a hard reset or
>>> power-off.
>>>
>>> Now when I press the power or reset button with DL running, it pops up
>>> a message saying:
>>> "A general system error Occurred:  Cannot execute scripts".
>>
>> It used to work.
>> These are the files which handle the shutdown:
>>
>> ls -la /etc/vmware-tools/
>>
>> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root root 1332 Dec 31  1979 poweroff-vm-default
>> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root root 1332 Dec 31  1979 poweron-vm-default
>> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root root 3023 Dec 31  1979 resume-vm-default
>> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root root 2619 Dec 31  1979 suspend-vm-default
>
> Yes, I have those four scripts on my DL too.
>
> How does VMware know where to find the scripts, and the script names?
> Maybe something changed?

I'm not sure.
Check the open-vm-tools sources if they mention anything...

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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