Enable timestamps for bash history
The HISTORY command in bash lets you see the last 1000 commands issued at the terminal. By default, this list does not contain timestamps for the commands you've issued. To…
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Table is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed – MySQL / MariaDB / Percona
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-5f0a5283dc019676960292/] A quick look at the…
Install NodeJS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04
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
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
Today we'll look at how to create a new database in MongoDB. Connect to mongod via the following line, replace your credentials [crayon-5f0a5283dcae2256841453/] If you're successfully authenticated then you'll see…
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…
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-5f0a5283dd96c113897043/] 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…