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
Installing Docker on CentOS 7 (behind corporate proxy)
As part of my research into Percona’s new Open Source offering, their Percona Monitoring and Management platform, I realized that a core component is provided via… Read More »Installing Docker on CentOS 7 (behind corporate proxy)
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
SSL Secured Apache Webserver
Here’s a quick way to run an SSL Secured Webserver. Ideally, a trusted Certificate Authority should be used, but as a proof of concept, we’ll… Read More »SSL Secured Apache Webserver
Standalone server reporting with Sar and KSar
Zabbix is a great tool for monitoring and reporting for multiple servers and that installation is covered here. In this instance, Sar and KSar will… Read More »Standalone server reporting with Sar and KSar
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]
CentOS 5 top menu vanished after update
Well this is a tickler. After I performed an update on a CentOS system, the top menu pulled a Houdini on me. The panel was… Read More »CentOS 5 top menu vanished after update
Reset MySQL root password on CentOS 5.x
I had one of those oh-crap moments and forgot the mysql root password in one of my development/test machines.This is a reblog of someone else’s… Read More »Reset MySQL root password on CentOS 5.x