One of my server recently rebooted by itself, but Nginx refused to start when it came back online. Manually trying to restart Nginx alternately threw the following errors error 1: nginx dead but pid file exists error 2: Not starting…
All the timezone information files are located under /usr/share/zoneinfo. Locate the timezone you want to enable. Edit the following statement with the path to enable the required timezone cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/<CONTINENT>/<CITY> /etc/localtime It’ll ask you whether you want to overwrite the existing file,…
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…
WHM will count any file who’s owner is the same as the cpanel account. In case cPanel reports Others in the quota then run the following command as root: find / -user USER >> The resulting file will list all…