Issue the following command to get a list of all packages installed on your server yum list installed To pipe the result to a file issue the following yum list installed >>
A client’s website was continuously getting PHP Notices regarding PHP session clean up issues. The solution turned out to be more complicated than initially thought, sessions need to be moved into RAM. A quick solution for this is to disable…
Simply issue the following command at shell to find out who all is connected to your phone: who
Just noticed that incoming emails were being delayed by about 30 minutes, we host our emails on Google Apps, so that couldn’t have been the issue. Next step was to investigate the server where the DNS of our domain was…
Rdiff-backup is a great tool for incremental backups. After the initial run it will only backup the changes which is great to take off load from the server for backups. To install issue the following command at shell as root:…
Got the following error while trying to repair a table individually: myisamchk: error: myisam_sort_buffer_size is too small The command I was using was: myisamchk -r -f TABLE-NAME.MYI To fix this just append the following to the command above: –sort_buffer_size=2G So…
Got the following error while trying to repair a crashed DB: Mysql error : Can’t create new tempfile: *.TMD file You need to run the myisamchk command on the table in question instead of the whole database. Issue the following by hopping…
Remote Desktop usually was a breeze on Ubuntu but this time, for some reason, it refused to work. The alternate is simple, use another VNC server. Install x11vnc sudo apt-get install x11vnc Set a password for incoming vnc connections sudo x11vnc…
The Windows 10 update started rolling out to users a couple of days ago, 29th July to be exact. But not everyone has been able to upgrade yet. A lot of people are still waiting for that pesky pop up…
I’ve got 15 work laptops that needed to be upgraded to Windows 10, all are eligible for the free upgrade but some of them refused to upgrade via the ISO method saying the setup couldn’t verify the license key. At…