We prematurely killed a yum process after which we started getting this error: The fix is fairly straight forward, you need to move or remove the db files for yum and run yum again. To do this, type the following…
We recently needed to exclude the kernel from being updated on a VPS server. While this may not sound or seem ideal but there are certain scenarios where you don’t want to update the kernel every time you update packages…
Today we’ll look at how to force recalculate / refresh your cPanel’s accounts disk space usage. This can be quite annoying, at times the usage does not update even though you’ve freed up space and it should. There is a…
We’re running Atomicorp’s Workload Security, previous known as Atomic Secure Linux, and have started getting the following error whenever we restart any service. ** (pkttyagent:112415): WARNING **: 12:49:43.934: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject Error…
We were faced with this error while trying to install vnstat from source on one of our servers. checking for sqlite3_prepare_v2 in -lsqlite3… no configure: error: could not find required sqlite3 library As to what this error is about, well…
Today we’ll look at how to install an NTP, chrony, client on CentOS 8. Issue the following to install the NTP client, chrony dnf install chrony Start the service by issuing the following: service chronyd start Start chrony on boot…
Today we’ll install cPanel or WHM on CentOS 7.7 cPanel is the most popular control panel in the shared hosting space. It is so widely used that it is the defacto control panel in the industry, Plesk comes in close…
Today we’ll be looking at how to install MongoDB 4.2 on CentOS 7, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.04 A little bit about MongoDB as per their website: MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern…
Today we’ll create a new user and grant it access to a single database in MongoDB. Start off by logging into mongodb with your admin/root user mongo -u ‘username’ -p ‘password’ –authenticationDatabase ‘admin’ You’ll land at a prompt like below…
Today we’ll look at how to create a new database in MongoDB. Connect to mongod via the following line, replace your credentials mongo -u ‘username’ -p ‘password’ –authenticationDatabase ‘admin’ If you’re successfully authenticated then you’ll see the following prompt: To…