We updated an old server recently and the ProFTP server started throwing this error “530 Login incorrect” and wouldn’t let us in. We looked at the usual culprits, reset passwords, verified directories but nothing seemed to work. We ran ProFTPD…
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) let’s you do a lot of interesting stuff inside Windows, biggest of which is installing Linux applications. We’ll look into installing MariaDB on Ubuntu running inside WSL. Before we start, make sure you have WSL…
Logging RSYNC output to file can be cumbersome but useful at times. Cumbersome because if you’re transferring a large number of files then the log file becomes intelligible but useful in cases where you need to track successful vs. unsuccessful transfers.…
Ubuntu isn’t bundled with exFAT read/write support out of the box, scouring the internet revealed we needed to install two packages. exfat-fuse exfat-utils This threw a very ugly error Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Package…
Homebrew is a package manager similar to Yum on CentOS and Apt-get on Ubuntu. You may at times need packages that are available on other Linux distributions that are not, out of the box, available on your Mac. To install Homebrew is pretty…
503 Guru Meditation Error / Backend Unavailable ugh. This error is the worst, it could mean so many things. Luckily in our case, we were getting this error when we tried to upload a large file. Bypassing Varnish and uploading…
Installing the latest stable version of Mariadb, v. 10.1, is pretty straight forward. Start off by heading over to the repo configurator and getting the links for your version of Ubuntu: LINK For us the commands were as follows, enter them…
To add /modify the static IP address of your ubuntu installation follow the steps below: Find out which interface is connected to the internet, issue the following: user@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig enp0s3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:1d:33:18 inet addr:192.168.123.153 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr:…
We’ll be using a freshly installed server with Ubuntu Server 16.04, Ubuntu Desktop should also work. By default Ubuntu 16.04 ships with Python 3 but you won’t be able to call it if you issue the following at shell: python…