Requires: libpcre.so / CentOS 7
Ran into this rather peculiar error recently while installing Varnish Cache on CentOS 7. [crayon-5d5df94b1ed38355857593/] The fix turned out to be simple, CentOS 6 was set in the varnish repo…
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530 Login incorrect – ProFTPD
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,…
Mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7
This tutorial will cover how to mount an NTFS drive on CentOS 7. We'll use the open-source version of the NTFS for Linux driver by Tuxera, NTFS-3G. The Prerequisites To…
Install and Configure ZFS – CentOS 7.6
We'll look at installing and configuring ZFS on CentOS 7.6 today. Why ZFS? [crayon-5d5df94b20ef5002601437/] Installation Start off by installing the repo rpm for ZFS, we'll be installing with the kABI-tracking…
Install GUI with VNC – CentOS 7.4
Running a headless (terminal only) server is great and all but sometimes a GUI helps. We'll be installing GNOME 3.28 on CentOS 7.4. Start off by issuing the following at shell:…
Logging RSYNC output to file
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…
Mount ZFS Pools on Boot
We recently ran into a snag with a new ZFS installation, the darn thing wouldn't mount the pools we created on boot. The solution turned out to be pretty straight forward, Issue the following at shell and reboot to test:
Fix AMD Ryzen Freeze/Hang/Crash issues – CentOS 7
On of our server providers was running a deal on servers equipped with the newly released AMD Ryzen CPUs. We got a couple to test them for future placements. Right…
Error: The Google perftools Module Requires the Google PerfTools – Nginx / CentOS 7.3
Got this while trying to compile nginx from source. [crayon-5d5df94b224ef576915656/] Issue the following at shell to fix this: [crayon-5d5df94b22505010329375/]
Error: the HTTP XSLT module requires the libxml2/libxslt – Nginx / CentOS 7.3
Ran into this error when I was trying to compile nginx from source: [crayon-5d5df94b228e2087998115/] Luckily there's a quick fix for this, issue the following command shell to install the required…