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)
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)
There was an older machine on the network, with an outdated local NTP configuration, and the time was off by a couple minutes.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
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
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
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
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)
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]
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
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
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