Installing The VMware Management Interface

[m1n1st3r]

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.

[m1n1st3r]

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.