Running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) Server. I followed the How-to to install VMWare Server Web Management Interface. http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_vmware_server_p2 Installation completed without errors, everything works great, got several vm's up and running, There is just one small exception. When I reboot, the Web Management Interface running on ports 8222 and 8333 does not load/respond. I ran nmap and noticed that these ports are not even open. After reboot if i run the command "/usr/bin/vmware-config-mui.pl" everything works great again. I was wondering how I should debug this, and what exactly the command "/usr/bin/vmware-config-mui.pl" does. Please forgive me, I'm really new to Linux. Any help would be appreciated.
Fixed After some digging I final found the fix. Add the following to the end of etc/init.d/rc # vmware httpd fix <<start>> mkdir /var/run/vmware/httpd/ chown www-data /var/run/vmware/httpd chgrp nogroup /var/run/vmware/httpd chmod 700 /var/run/vmware/httpd /etc/init.d/httpd.vmware start # vmware httpd fix <<end>> Reboot, Drink beer, life is good.
