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Table is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed – MySQL / MariaDB / Percona

October 21, 2019
General Linux
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Today we'll look into repairing a crashed Wordpress database table. The error message could appear in one of many ways, some of them below: [crayon-5e2b419c02fae691749691/] A quick look at the…

Install NodeJS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04

October 1, 2019
Ubuntu
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We'll be looking into how to install Node.js on Ubuntu versions 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04. We'll install Node.js with NVM (Node Version Manager). This lets us install any version…

How to increase the size of a ZFS Pool / Add drive to ZFS Pool

September 5, 2019
ZFS
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Today we'll look at how to increase the size of a ZFS pool. We'll do this by adding a new drive to the ZFS pool. ZFS makes this incredibly easy…

Create new database in MongoDB

August 27, 2019
CentOS
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Today we'll look at how to create a new database in MongoDB. Connect to mongod via the following line, replace your credentials [crayon-5e2b419c042ce097068060/] If you're successfully authenticated then you'll see…

SSH connection takes too long to respond/connect

August 23, 2019
CentOS
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Has an SSH connection taken too long to return the password prompt? There are two possible fixes to it. There are two possible ways to fix this, First, disable Reverse…

530 Login incorrect – ProFTPD

August 1, 2019
General Linux
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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

July 26, 2019
CentOS
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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

July 25, 2019
CentOS
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We'll look at installing and configuring ZFS on CentOS 7.6 today. Why ZFS? [crayon-5e2b419c0492b613407495/] Installation Start off by installing the repo rpm for ZFS, we'll be installing with the kABI-tracking…

Install MySQL / MariaDB on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)

July 22, 2019
Windows 10
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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…

Install AWS CLI – CentOS 7.6

April 26, 2019
General Linux
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The AWS CLI gives you a way to interact with Amazon Web Services (AWS) via command line. This comes in real handy when you need to automate tasks such as…