Troubleshooting Cron (Cron not working)
I had a very curious case on a developmental server where after a couple weeks, I realized the cronjobs were not running. The crontab was… Read More »Troubleshooting Cron (Cron not working)
CentOS 6
Reset/Update NTP Server
There was an older machine on the network, with an outdated local NTP configuration, and the time was off by a couple minutes. This post… Read More »Reset/Update NTP Server
Using Grep to search for a string inside a file
Simple story here really. I had a borked config somewhere inside my /etc/ folder that was throwing some application errors. It’s a development machine with… Read More »Using Grep to search for a string inside a file
TurnitinTwo Issues with Moodle 3 on CentOS 6
I recently stumbled upon a Turnitin bug on my Moodle 3 environment where it was simply failing to connect with Turnitin through the configuration interface.… Read More »TurnitinTwo Issues with Moodle 3 on CentOS 6
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) – some basic tricks on CentOS 6
I’ve been playing around with PAM on a couple distros recently, and I thought I’d share some quick tips and tricks in setting up a… Read More »Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) – some basic tricks on CentOS 6
Introduction to Linux Systems Administration (a Workshop)
I recently delivered a free 5 (half) day workshop on an Introduction to Linux Systems Administration. The information was culled from a range of web… Read More »Introduction to Linux Systems Administration (a Workshop)
Upgrading / Migrating a MySQL 5.0 Database to MySQL 5.5 [InnoDB]
This post is an ultra, no, make that uber paranoid method of upgrading/migrating a relatively large (20+ GB on file) InnoDB database from MySQL version… Read More »Upgrading / Migrating a MySQL 5.0 Database to MySQL 5.5 [InnoDB]
Installing MySQL 5.5 on CentOS 6.x
This post covers the installation of MySQL 5.5 on CentOS 6 (64bit) By default, CentOS 6 ships with MySQL 5.1, but to take all the… Read More »Installing MySQL 5.5 on CentOS 6.x
Removing a repository from CentOS
Let’s chalk this one up to the Monday Morning Blues. I’m running through a CentOS 6.x test server and needed to install the EPEL repos.… Read More »Removing a repository from CentOS
Issues with CentOS 6 and EPEL
I was running into some issues with the EPEL repo on CentOS 6.x. I had just installed the OS and the EPEL/remi repos and whilst… Read More »Issues with CentOS 6 and EPEL