Find which version of Ubuntu you’re running
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: [crayon-5e84c2b28904c265645179/] The terminal window…
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smbd: make_connection_snum: canonicalize_connect_path failed for service SHARE
[crayon-5e84c2b28a37a589939079/] One of our shares refused to work this morning, kept throwing an error saying: [crayon-5e84c2b28a383583768892/] Looking at the message log file at /var/log/messages showed the following: [crayon-5e84c2b28a385182709275/] There are…
killall: command not found
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…
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-5e84c2b28add0911280723/] 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 install GeoIP module on Ubuntu for NGINX
Today we'll be looking at how to install the GeoIP module on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04 for NGINX. You may come across an error like the following…
How to install Ruby and RubyGems on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 19.04
Today we'll be looking at how to install Ruby and RubyGems on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.04. The installation steps listed in this article will work for both versions…
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-5e84c2b28bfad985898436/] 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,…