SSH connection takes too long to respond/connect
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…
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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-5d60262393b01977932166/] 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)
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
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…
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:…
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:
Error: The Google perftools Module Requires the Google PerfTools – Nginx / CentOS 7.3
Got this while trying to compile nginx from source. [crayon-5d60262395e81484066290/] Issue the following at shell to fix this: [crayon-5d60262395e8e995347063/]
Install Python PIP – CentOS 7.3
Python PIP is a package installed similar to Yum on CentOS. It is the recommend / preferred way of installing Python packages on machines. To get started make sure you…