The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a Linux environment that includes most CLI tools, utilities, and applications. These are run directly from within Windows, unmodified, and without the overhead of a conventional virtual machine or dualboot environment.…
We noticed load on one of our production servers recently and had to enable slow query log for our MariaDB server. Since this was a server in production, we feared that if we tried restarting the MariaDB server that it…
One of our machines threw this error when we tried to install the latest Intel display driver from their website. This happens when your computer manufacturer changes a setting in the bundled driver indicating that drivers only obtained from the…
Ran into this issue on a client’s cPanel hosting account while maintaining their Magento site: An exception was raised while creating “Request”; no instance returned The server returned this error when trying to run maintenance commands via the terminal like…
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…
Ran into this error on a server recently. We had to kill the VNC server because it stalled having its session running for an extended period. # systemctl restart vncserver@:1 Job for vncserver@:1.service failed because a configured resource limit was…
Today we’ll look at installing NGINX on a freshly installed server running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. A little bit about NGINX: NGINX is a lightweight opensource web browser capable of serving static files using far lesser memory than Apache and handling…
Today we’ll learn how to find which version of Ubuntu you’re running. To do this, launch a terminal window and issue the following at the terminal: lsb_release -a The terminal window will throw back the version of Ubuntu currently installed,…
Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol, and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell. Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Microsoft Windows One of our shares…
We’ll be looking at how to install the Linux command killall in this article. Killall send’s a signal to, if not explicitly specified, terminate all the processes with the given name. CentOS used to ship with killall out of the…
